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HDR Panorama: St John’s Hampstead

Andy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:45:00 +0000

High Dynamic Range panoramas should, in our view, be a first stop for any visualization of architecture, planning or design projects. They are quick to capture and provide a useful context for off site meetings or online communication of design. In addition they can be used as the basis for 3D modeling, complete with realistic lighting via the HDR capture.

The image above is of St John’s Church in Hampstead – a Grade I listed building and has stood on the site since 1823 in an architectural style more reminiscent of New England than London churches of its time.

Click ‘Load’ and drag to look around, select ‘Open’ to view full screen.

The St John’s website notes that:

‘As a proprietary chapel, St John’s is recognised as a church within the London Diocese of the Church of England but has complete independence in financial matters. It receives no support from and makes no contribution to Diocesan Funds. It is entirely self supporting and all costs, including staff and building costs, are borne by the congregation which has owned the building since 2003 when they bought it from the family trust which had owned it and leased it to them since the First World War’.

You can view a higher resolution version of the panorama via our Flickr Group.

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HDR Panorama: St John’s Hampstead

Andy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:45:00 +0000

Click ‘Load’ and drag to look around, select ‘Open’ to view full screen.

The St John’s website notes that:

You can view a higher resolution version of the panorama via our Flickr Group.

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HDR New York at Night

Andy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:34:00 +0000

The image above grabbed our attention while searching for HDR City Images. Taken using 3 exposures which are then subsequently merged using Photomatix the photo by Paulo Barcello’s is one of the best we have seen.

HDR is an interesting technique and one that we have been promising to do a tutorial on for a while. The weather in London is improving and with the booklet complete (more on that and availability/pricing next week after the new print run) we are ready to go and capture some shots for a ‘how to’…

It is well worth visting Paulo’s Flickr page to see the full size version of New York at Night.

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HDR City Photographs: Tokyo

Andy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:55:00 +0000

After our posts on HDR photographs of New York a quick update to point those interested to images of Toyko captured using the same technique…

See 10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham using HDR.

A tutorial and sample files will follow as soon as the weather in London allows – it could be months

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HDR City Photographs

Andy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:58:00 +0000

Our plans to capture High Dynamic Range (HDR) images in Hong Kong were put to rest due to mist and London seems to of been lost in drizzle for months. As soon as we get the right conditions a full tutorial will appear on the blog as its part of the forthcoming book.

In the meantime Stuck in Customs – unique photography for unique people have some stunning HDR images of New York.

It is well worth taking a look at the full set of photographs via the main Stuck in Customs page.

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University College London Quad Panorama – Lumix FX50 High Dynamic Range

Andy — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:39:00 +0000

With a couple of adjustments, compared to our first test images and post on capturing high dynamic range panoramas with the Lumix FX50, the results are now more than acceptable.

Pictured below in the main quadrangle of University College London captured using 108 images resulting in a 70 mega pixel panorama.

Click and drag to pan, double click or use the middle mouse scroll wheel to zoom:

The main building of University College London, pictured in this panorama, was designed by William Wilkins and constructed between 1827 and 1828. The building is centered on a Corinthian portico which is reminiscent of the British Museum, (constructed a couple of years earlier).

View the Google Maps version of the panorama full screen (recommended) or in quicktime virtual reality (3.6Mb).

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HDR Panorama with the Lumix FX-50

Andy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:08:00 +0000

Creating a High Dynamic Range panorama is often deemed to require high end hardware such a digital SLR. While for high quality results this is indeed preferable sometimes the weight of the kit makes it impractical. As such we thought we would try a HDR view using a standard high street camera – in our case a Panasonic Lumix FX50 as pictured right.

Taken using auto bracket mode and comprising of 204 photographs it is possible to produce a 75 Mega Pixel panorama as illustrated below:

Click and drag to pan, double click or use the middle mouse scroll wheel to zoom:

While merely a test with known errors it does show potential for capturing those moments in High Dynamic Range when you don’t want to carry a heavy rig across town.

You can also view the image full screen

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