I was there Saturday morning, a good 45 minutes early and there was no one
around me (one other person in this area) but it was too windy and they did not
take off. I returned Saturday evening, just as the first balloon was
taking off. There were huge amounts of people there, and I was not able
to get as close as I would like.
I am creating a panorama movie by taking panorama or partial panorama about
every minute, from 6:28PM to 6:55PM I will have about 30 panorama
movie frames, I still need to stitch about half of them to add to the
movie.
I wish the people did not move around so much. The clouds also moved much
more than I thought. The convenience of A one shot system setup for this
type of panorama definitely would out weigh the low resolution.
The movie jumps quite a bit. It would look much better if there was
2 to 4 more frames between each one I captured.
It would also look much better it I could set up in the middle of the balloons,
so that they were much closer, and all around.
I stitched one complete 360. Then used this as a reference to stitch and
warp all the other images (partial pans) on top of.
I used each complete 360 as a key-frames and created all the other
frames by adding the partial pan on top and flattening the image.
Here are a couple VR's of the balloon until I get the movie ready.
(Full screen and Java versions coming soon.)
After the Balloons took off I stuck around and created some VR's of the rides
and games. Thirteen different panoramas from dusk to dark.
I wanted to create images like the ones I took at the
Calgary Stampede many different years but now as panoramas. My
digital camera does not have the dynamic range that the film camera had, but
the panoramas give a much better experience.
I showed up like many other people just before sun rise. I set up my
equipment and waited. The sun came up directly behind the balloons.
And the wind was such that they would be traveling right over me not
giving me much time to get the pictures. So I moved my set up over to the
side.
