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Schweinfurt, Germany

June 20 & 21, 2009, 9:23 UTC (10:23 local time)

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When I checked my schedule to plan the shoot for this event, it was clear to me that I wouldn't be in my hometown at the time of shoot. Sometime later all bookings were arranged and I had a reservation for the Panorama Hotel in Schweinfurt! So in my opinion it was mandatory to shoot a panorama, which at least incorporated the Hotel itself.

On location I discovered a nice balcony which provided a nice view over Schweinfurt. So I did a mini-timelapse of this view. The first shot was done on June 20 @ 10:26 am, the second shot on June 21 @ 10:20. The resulting panorama shows both days in a single sphere. If you look up, you will notice the different layout of the clouds on the different days.

Making Of

The shooting was done with a 3.15 meter (appx. 10.33 ft) pole to reach a more elevated viewpoint above the balcony. The pole was extended to its full length. The lens was mounted with a custom made bracket, which allows to mount the lens to turn around the no-parallax point of the lens.

As the lens is a fisheye lens, four pictures easily cover 360°. To be sure I took three exposures at each direction. The exposures were 2 f-stops apart. The best exposed set was chosen before stitching. This was done on both days.

I began stitching with the panorama of the first day. It produced a nice sphere, which only had to be retouched at nadir and zenith. Then the final equirectangular image was loaded into PTGui and used as a reference for the second panorama. Thus the alignment of the two panoramas was good enough, to blend them together into one final image in Photoshop.

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