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Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
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#42There has to be someone naked. Let's find him/her.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could the car have moved at the same time as the camera, such that it appeared in two different pictures which were later stitched together?
Yep, that's usually the giveaway of these types of panorama shots. Sometimes you can even find the same person in multiple places depending on how far apart the pics are taken.
Here's a quick screenshot I made of that very problem:
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#44It's interesting seeing how they dealt with moving objects like the boats.
If you scan anti-clockwise until the river is hidden behind the buildings you should see two tour boats with "China Bohai Bank" on the side. One appears to be pulling in and one pull out. If you look at the passengers - it's actually the same boat. If you follow the river clockwise, you'll see two barges carrying dark material. Again, these are the same boat.
I could be mistaken, but it seems in both cases that some 'manual effort' would have been involved to make the picture look natural by placing the duplicates slightly out of position as if they were two individual boats.
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#45That's incredible. If you zoom in on the tippy top of huge building under construction across the river and then follow the crane cable down to the hook, you can see a construction worker in sufficient detail that you can tell what clothes he's wearing.
It's like one of those cop show computer lab scenes where the detectives find a vital clue from a witness' blurry 5 megapixel cell phone photo.
"Wait a minute. Why didn't I see it earlier? Zoom and enhance on that smudge!"
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#46How are pictures like these taken? What kind of equipment would you need?
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#47How are pictures like these taken? What kind of equipment would you need?
They are shot with a dSLR and a very long lens. This one was likely shot with a 300mm lens. The camera is mounted on a programmable robot, and a mosaic of photos is created. They are then stitched together with software such as PTGui or kolor Autopano Giga. I've shot a number of images like this, in fact some of them over 4x bigger than this one. My largest one, of Prague, was released 2 weeks ago: http://360gigapixe…
Wonderful pictures. The 360 views really help capture the feel of the city. Wish there was a way to fix the black hole at the bottom, though.
Re: Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
#48It's interesting seeing how they dealt with moving objects like the boats. If you scan anti-clockwise until the river is hidden behind the buildings you should see two tour boats with "China Bohai Bank" on the side. One appears to be pulling in and one pull out. If you look at the passengers - it's actually the same boat. If you follow the river clockwise, you'll see two barges carrying dark material. Again, these ar…
People too, unless this lady has an identical twin with the same umbrella https://imgur.com/NQ5keHY
I haven't seen any ugly merges between the frames yet, but they can't have been done manually
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#49The next generation of where’s Waldo is going to be incredible
Re: Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
#50It's interesting seeing how they dealt with moving objects like the boats. If you scan anti-clockwise until the river is hidden behind the buildings you should see two tour boats with "China Bohai Bank" on the side. One appears to be pulling in and one pull out. If you look at the passengers - it's actually the same boat. If you follow the river clockwise, you'll see two barges carrying dark material. Again, these ar…
Why would that be manual and not an artifact of movement between snapshots? If it were manual effort,why wouldn't they erase a duplicate?