Saturday, November 8th, 2008
This past August, I took a trip to the Adirondacks with my long-time friends, the Ritter family. This trip in particular, I spent some time beforehand researching possible photo locations and trails to hike. I found two summit hikes with fire towers at the top that seemed to have good views. The first was Blue Mountain, right near the Adirondack Museum. It was a relatively short hike, 2.2 miles to the top, but with the largest climb I had done at 1500 feet. I talked my friend, Edward, into climbing it with me. It turned out that 2.2 miles is quite long when you are climbing the entire time, but we pushed through it and made it to the top in good time. I am not a fan of heights; it took an internal battle to will myself up the rickety-looking fire tower. I took this virtual tour from the inside.
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Tags: adirondack museum, adirondacks, blue mountain, fire tower, hike, new york, QVR, summit, virtual reality tour, vr
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Here is another virtual tour from this house, featuring the large master bathroom. This one is a single exposure, but I took a second exposure that I could use to gain some more light inside the master bedroom.
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Tags: 180, 360, blended, blending, exposures, hugin, ivr, john street, master bathroom, QTVR, quicktime, reality, sigma 8mm, tour, virtual, vr
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
After the conservatory, I moved my setup into the kitchen to take a virtual tour in there. In the photo in the last entry, you can see the kitchen area underneath the arches in the left-hand side. To properly expose the inside of the house, I had to increase the exposure enough to wash out the conservatory. To combat this, I took two exposures in each position, stitched them both seperately, and blended the equirectangular panoramas. I was able to figure out a way to stitch two identical (or near identical) panoramas with two different sets of photos. According to theory, the two sets of photos are of the same place taken at the same time without the camera moving, but without Hugin stitching both exactly the same, trying to blend the two exposures would be impossible. Here is my final result:
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Tags: 180, 360, blended, blending, exposures, hugin, ivr, john street, kitchen, QTVR, quicktime, reality, sigma 8mm, tour, virtual, vr
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