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?BillinGlendaleCA
A month ago, I shared a few Tiny Planet panorama projections shot from Beacon Hill in Griffith Park. While they turned out well, I was a bit unhappy with the growth of brush around the summit of Beacon Hill. I looked at the maps of the park to find a location that would have a better view and settled on Glendale Peak. I’d been up there about 5 1/2 years ago and the summit was dominated by grass, so I returned. It has about a 270Ā° view from Burbank in the north to Griffith Observatory in the west. I shot 3 360Ā° panoramas at sunset, just as the lights came on after sunset and blue hour.
A week and a half ago, I took the local photography group to Elysian Fields for an evening shoot of downtown LA. This location has a stunning view of Dodger Stadium with downtown LA just behind it. While it only has about a 180Ā° view, it is much closer to downtown LA. Finally, I was look at some old photos my dad took of Thousand Oaks just after they moved there.
Prominent in the photo was a symmetrical hill, called Tarantula Hill, after some research I found that you can access the top. I packed up my cameras and made the drive out there and climbed to the top. While a reservoir at the top obscures the view a bit, it is a good 360Ā° view of the Conejo Valley. I took both my NX1 for visual shots and my NX300 with the IRChrome filter for Aerochrome emulation shots.
Sunset from Glendale Peak.
Golden Hour from Glendale Peak.
Blue Hour from Glendale Peak.
Blue Hour from Elysian Fields.
Visual color shot from Tarantula Hill.
Aerochrome emulation via the IRChrome filter from Tarantula Hill.
Rob
Nice!
Baud
Your 360Ā° shots are so trippy.
Johnny's mom
Cool AF
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Rob: Thanks.
@Baud: They’re fun and not too hard to do(the hard and time consuming part is blending the two ends together).
raven
Far out
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Heh, I was going to try some close up(buildings in downtown).
p.a.
Schweet! Ā Custom fathead them.
randy khan
Those are wild.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@p.a.: Heh, prints will be available on my site.
@randy khan: They do lend to a different perspective.
ellie
Beautiful! Tarantula Hill? I don’t like the sound of that!
BigJimSlade
@?BillinGlendaleCA: This looks fun – do you have special software for this? Or do you do something like is described here: https://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/little-planet-photos-5-simple-steps-to-making-panorama-worlds
?BillinGlendaleCA
@ellie: Thanks, no tarantulas were seen on my hike up there.
@BigJimSlade: I do have software that will do this, but I used the procedure you saw in that link.Ā The one thing it didn’t mention was doing an offset to match up(I’m using photoshop and not GIMP) the edges.Ā The edges of the pano will never match up, especially when the light is changing(sunset).Ā Stitching the panorama, matching the color at the edges and removing unwanted thing(there were other photographers in the Glendale Peak shots) isĀ the time consuming part.