Progress on Ideas

Once I had been given the Assignment I thought about doing A Day in the Life of a Family. Consequently I had thought about taking my photos in three locations either in or around my own home.

During the time when I had begun doing my research for my blog and essay, I had come across many peoples' work desplaying locations that seemed a bit boring but, by the way that the creators had stitched them together they had become extremely fascinating, and therefore even though I had already taken photos from two out of the three locations and had started placing them together I decided that my theme and my photos were not that interesting or creative to look at and that is when I had decided to start again from scratch and try and decide where I was going to take my photos and how I would link them.

After carrying on with my research I had then discovered an idea, I had remembered places that I had been to previously that I had thought were particually interesting to look at, and I felt that they would be even better in a QTVR. The place at which I had first thought of was at Jack and Jill Windmill, I rememebered that I was able to see both Hassocks and Burgess Hill from there and that is where I decided to make my theme a Tourist Guide.
The other places at which I had taken my images was first in the middle of the Martlets in Burgess Hill town Center whilst there was no one around and the sun was still shining, I also chose a place just down from my first location showing more of Burgess Hill, this was on a band stand. And my last place was at the top of the town near the train station showing the train station the tracks and looking down the town.

I had chosen these ares because I thought that they would show Burgess Hill particually well, and even though Jack and Jill is out of Burgess Hill, I thought that because of where it is situated I was able to show that Burgess Hill may be a town but it is still small and community based.

Here are just a couple of images from 2 of my pieces that I intend to do:





This image here is from my first idea Jack and Jill, showing both Burgess Hill and Hassocks in the distance.

Again this is an image that I have taken from the photos that I took of Burgess Hill town center, I hope that once i have put all of my images together that this would be a helpful guide into Burgess Hill.

Some Research on QTVR

QTVR stands for Quick Time Virtual Reality, and it is a type of image file format supported by Apple's QuickTime. It enables the designer to create a virtual world using panorama images for the viewer/customer, at which they are able to discover more then looking at a standard panoramic photo.

With taking the pictures for QVTR's the creator is able to use any sort of camera, however it would be easier to use a digital camera as you are able to look back and take other photos if needed. Moreover, another useful thing is to use a fisheye lens with a specialised camera, for example a Canon or Nikon, this allows for the creator to take less photos because a fisheye lens is a wide-angled lens, and you are able to take an ultra-wide photo.

QTVR can be compared to the human eye. The human eye initially is taking a series of photographic images and stitching them together to create the vision at which we see every single day. (I heard this fact from a television programme that was broadcast on BBC One at 19:30 on Monday 28th September, this programme was called Bang Goes The Theory.)

Click Here for an example of QTVR
Another example of QTVR

Research On Panoramic Photographers

There is a London based Panoramic Photographer who has been capturing and manipulation his images for 15 years. His name is Will Pearson. He is able to capture pictures of beautiful aesthetically pleasing landscapes and put them together to create a full panoramic view of the landscape or area at which he has been. Will Pearsons also creates not just 360 degree views, but he creates some alternate perspective views, therefore the images are linked together to create an circular shape in the centre of the picture, this then makes the viewer intrigued and wanting to know more about the place where the images were taken. Another interesting device that is on the website link below is that you are able to look at the panoramic photos as a QTVR, this means that you are able to scan around the images, as like you were there standing in the spot at which the images would have been taken, and turning in a complete circle.

Here I have picked out a panorama picture that Will Pearson had created. I am particularly impressed and intrigued on how he was able to make this image, and with no indication on where any of the joins are, also how he was able to stitch the separate images together whilst there were bird flying around.

I think there are many apsects to Will Pearson's work that I am able to comment on. For starters with his static work that the viewer is able to see the complete view in one image and I feel that he has explored many different ideas and themes, for example he has done both landscapes and cityscapes, with the cityscapes he has based it round London, which is in fact as I have mentioned before is where he is based. I particually like the image where the birds are flying around and there is no idication to where he has overlapped his images, and i also find it fasinating where even thoughthe birds are moving and flying around everywhere he is still able to capture and stitch the images very well, without any flaws.

Again, here I am showing another one of Will Pearson's panoramas, and again with this one I am intrigued on the way that he ha ben able to stitch the photos that he has taken together. Moreover, I really like the curves and the symatry of this image and in my opinion it works well.

Click Here to see Will Pearson's QTVR Work
Click Here to see Will Pearson's Static Work

In 1989 Brad Templeton founded ClariNet communications Corporations, this is a upgraded version of Usenet, which is a way for people to communicate over the internet. After running the company for many years, Templeton then started to take panormaic photos in 1997. Unlike most people who use VR to allow the viewers to look around the 360 view, Templeton stitched the images that he had taken together to make one long image, therefore either himself or his customers are able to see everything at once, instead of looking at the 360 degree view. Also he would prefer to print the images instead of showing them digitally, and for both himself and his customers he would sometimes print the images 32 feet long to fit across walls in seperate rooms.

This is a panorama of the Badlands of Alberta, in detail.

This is a panorama of the Calgary at Twilight.

This is a panorama of the Grand Canyon, teh North Rim.

With these set of images that I have retrieved from Brad Templeton's website I am able to notice that he has one common theme, and that is landscapes. Even though most people use landscapes because they are effective, I feel that his work is particulary good because he has been able to put his photos together in an effective way that makes the complete image very aesthetically pleasing.

I have looked at most of his work both full coverage and in detail and I have not found any places at which I am able to see where the images have been overlapped, this means that he has been able to use different softwares for example like Adobe Photoshop, to create the artwork that he wanted to create.
Lastly most of Brad Templeton's work is landscape and there are limited pieces of other variants, if he would add other images then he would be able to expand his artwork for example city centers or homes, however the pieces that he has done i feel are very meaningful and very imressive.
Click Here to see more of Brad Templton's Work

Images from Wikipedia:

This image I find is particually clever, in the sense that I think that stitching the rocks, near and far, together with hardly any show of where the joins are is very difficult, and I feel that this photographer must have worked long and hard on this image.

Moreove, with this image I think that the photographer gave the image a 3D effect with the way that he/she has stitched the images together, because the image as a whole has a rounded effect with each picture.