FANTASTIC! How do you film them?

Each panorama is made up of a series of still images that are stitched together to produce a single image with a horizontal field of view of 360º and a vertical field of view of 180º. In this instance, six images make up the bulk of the panorama with a further two images to cap the top and bottom of the panorama.

Depending on lighting and subject matter, once the panorama is stitched there is anything up to 8 – 10 hours of Photoshop work correcting stitching errors, colour and exposure correction, etc, although an average panorama would take 2 – 4 hours work. This was the case with the panoramas of the American Air Museum.

The Lancaster panorama took a fair while longer as it is actually a composite of two 360 panoramas, one exposed for the interior and one exposed for the exterior, which were then blended together by hand.

The final panoramas are then sharpened, resized and authored in QuickTime and Java, and in some cases such as this, Full Screen QuickTime.

Glad you like them. If I do any more aviation related work I’ll be sure to post a link.

Cheers,

Phil