From the guys trip in late September, 2008. Chuck and I just hanging out.
Image has very little exposure overlap and lots of obvious errors, but I made the best of it.
Sebago Resort – Lake panorama with Chuck – 2008
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Sebago Resort – panorama – near the volleyball court
This panorama is huge: 34K x 9K pixels. Taken in 2011, but I had a lot of trouble building it. The recent upgrade to hugin made it easy.
Old pano – sebago dock
Just an old picture from some years ago. Was before I knew about hugin so it is very simple and has lots of issues.
Sebago Resort – Cabin 5 Interior
This picture was taken Memorial weekend, 2012. I’m starting to learn a few things, so it only took a few days to put together rather than a few weeks.
Second picture from the “living room”.
The bedroom.
Sebago Resort – 20110530-14a
Just another sunset at Sebago resort in Nisswa, MN, on Round lake.
Sebago Resort Entrance – 20110531-3
Entrance to Sebago resort in Nisswa, MN, on Round lake. Extremely windy day, so lots of ghosting in the image. About 85 images worth
Middle Drakensberg – Amphitheater – South Africa
The Drakensberg mountains are about 100 miles inland from Durban. The range extends about 100 miles, in three distinctive sections: North, Middle, South. If you’ve seen the movie Zulu, you’ve seen this part of the world. Every other winter, there will be a light dusting of snow that lasts a couple of days. Many of the bushmen caves are to be found here. The hiking is tremendous and varied, with dozens of resorts to stay at. This area is mainly populated by rural Zulus. Each year in late winter, early spring, they burn the grass. The reason is that this area is very dry. If the grass were long, it would lay flat and the water would run off. By burning the grass, the water is held, the land rejuvenates, and the grass returns.
This is a view of the Middle Drakensberg peaks from below Tugela Falls. Tugela Falls is the 2nd highest waterfall in the world, but is dry in August (when we visited).
I am not 100% certain of this location, but I believe it is close.
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Sebago Resort – dock pano 12b
Just another image in the series while we were doing dock work … Scotty worked moving rocks and I worked on taking pictures 🙂
Sebago Resort Dock Late night pano
I did this one many years ago. A crazy pano. A very dark night with no moon (until later). I started around midnight and worked until 5 in the morning. I was testing the technique of leaving the cameras lens wide open for minutes at a time, while I walked around and “painted” the scene with my flash. So literally all the light you see along the shoreline (except for the lights at the top of the bank) was my flase. Thirty of them at least. Towards the end of the night (facing south), the moon came out, so I had different lighting problems. And if you look west, you can see the movement of stars across the sky. Of course this was back in the film days, so I had no idea what I was going to get until I had the film developed days later. Sure was a lot of fun and something I doubt I’ll get to repeat.
Seabgo Resort – Cabin 6 Bedroom Interior
Interior of cabin 6 at Sebago resort in Nisswa, MN, on Round lake.
Sebago Resort – Cabin 3 Interior
Interior of cabin 3 at Sebago resort in Nisswa, MN, on Round lake.
Sebago Resort – Cabin 2 interior
Interior of cabin 2 at Sebago resort in Nisswa, MN, on Round lake.
Sebago Resort – garage
An HDR view of the inside of the Sebago garage. Composite image of 105 images.
Sebago Resort – Cabin 3 Interior
Cabin 3 is one of the nicest and largest cabins, plus it is closest to the lake and the stairs going down to the docks.
Sebago Resort – 2011 – morning by the basketball
Morning panorama with two levels of exposure for HDR. Wind was low so only minimal ghosting in the leaves. It was a beautiful day, and this is one of my better panoramas.
Sebago Store Interior 2011
The interior of the Sebago store. Close to 100% in all directions. 2 or 3 exposure bracketing for HDR. At least 2 weeks of evenings work, but who is counting. Meaning … you better like this a lot, lol
Sebago – dock sunset – panorama
A simple sunset from the boat dock in 2011
A very wide panorama from Sebago Resort, Memorial 2011
Memorial weekend in Sebago, 2011. Attempt to get a very wide image with detail. Camera zoomed in.
Sebago Resort twilight fishing
Taking the boats out for some night fishing.
Moving panorama hosting to 360cities
It has always been annoying that the Microsoft HDView tool relies on silverlight and forces users to install a plugin. Not to mention that I started embedding the panoramas in my page and that led to problems … crashes and lack of 360 deg awareness. So I took another look around at free hosting tools, and gigapan and 360cities emerged as two good options. Gigapan is picky in that they reject panoramas that are too small. They REALLY mean giga. 360cities has some restrictions, but not as severe.
For now, I am moving to 360cities. While my panoramas are not good enough for them to include publicly, they will host them so I can show them here.
My 360cites profile can be found at http://www.360cities.net/profile/richmacd
Sebago – Overlook Panorama – 2000
Another older panorama photo I’m moving to autopan tools.
Sebago Panorama – Entrance – Memorial 1999
An old panorama I did back in 1999.
Sebago panorama 20110530-1
Not a very good pano. Too much wind, and contrast blending issues because I was not doing HDR.
Sebago Docks at Twilight – David silhouette
This was an amazing evening. As peaceful and quiet as it appears. I have several copies of the image, and this is just the HDView version of it, so we can zoom in. The colors in this particular version are pushed (over-saturated) because it was used for printing.
Sebago – Cabin 6 – Kitchen – 2011
This is the start of a series of pictures I took of the insides of the cabins at Sebago. I am doing high-resolution (zoomed lens) and HDR in a cramped space, so the limitations of the camera do show, and it is really hard to get it perfectly. So it isn’t perfect.
Kitchen Interior of Cabin 6, Sebago Resort in USABy the way, the HDView panorama is the best way to see the cabin, but if we look at one picture, we have to choose which distortion we least dislike. The above image is hemispherical, and is used for the HDView panorama. Below is the panini projection, which tries to keep straight lines as straight lines. Better in some ways; worse in others.
