Sites that link to our 360s
Over the years, we have made 360 panoramas
at various interesting places and many of them can be found through
the Photo Gallery pages. In some cases the owners of these places
have put links to our panos on their websites (you are
very welcome) and they are listed below.
All our 360 panorama's are made with a Canon 8-15mm fisheye @8mm, positioned at the
no-parallax point
(as best as we can) on a RRS base and tripod. Most panos
are made from HDR images (5 shots from -2 to +2, mostly through SNS-HDR), 4 in the round to assure
sufficient overlap, so 20 pics in all. Everything is shot in RAW and then
processed through DXO PureRaw (probably a bit overkill for this purpose, but
we like the results) before being stitched with PTGUI.
Zenith and Nadir are
then processed with Pano2VR (extraction) and Photoshop (filling the holes),
before the pano is returned to Lightroom for final processing. PTGUI then
exports the pano to a web format and we use JPEGminiPro to reduce the size
of the resulting JPGs even further.
We have been working with the same basic setup for
years now, but the software and the camera sensors have made significant
progress since then. We still like the Stargazers NZ panos (2014), but it is
clear that noise reduction has
also advanced spectacularly in the intervening years,
especially of course for the night pano (we would love to go back to
Stargazers and update the panos, but NZ is a long way from NL).
Nature photography links
- Birdpix NL
(great bird pics from - mostly - Dutch photographers)
-
Nature
Photography (international nature photographers network)
- Marek Kosinski
(we went with one of Marek's tours and had a wonderful time, see
Biebzra, Poland, 2011))
- Emil Enchev (we went
with one of Emil's tours and had a wonderful time, see Bulgaria
2010)
- Han Bouwmeester
(Han operates a number of bird photo hides in NL, see also Farne
Islands, 2011)
- Ralph Paonessa (we went
with Ralph on some of his wonderful tours, see Falklands and
Chile 2017 and Ecuador 2022)
- Martijn de Jonge
(the man behind white-tailed eagle projects, see Oder Delta,
Poland, 2009)
- Arthur
Morris (we went with Arthur in the analog days, see
South-West USA, 1999-2003)
- Frans Lanting
(simply great wildlife photography)
Photographic equipment and software
Links
Here's a collection of links;
- Places we have visited and that offered great 360
opportunities have sometimes linked to our 360s and they are
listed here.
- Furthermore there are links to sites that we visit on a regular basis here. They
offer news, good advice, reviews and great pictures. Some sites
represent hard- and software vendors who's stuff we bought to our
satisfaction. We liked them, but your mileage may of course vary.