Downtown Vancouver is a 10 billion pixel image, 160° view of downtown Vancouver, BC Canada. The image is composed of 1380 individual photos taken on December 17, 2010 using a GigaPan EPIC Pro, Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM.
The famous North Shore Mountains (Cypress, Lions, Grouse and Seymour) are in the backdrop. On the left is English Bay. Spanning the width is False Creek with the Yaletown condos (left), Cambie Street Bridge (center), and on the right, BC Place Stadium with its new retractable roof under construction, Rogers Arena, Port Metro Vancouver, Olympic Athlete’s Village and Science World. The tallest building (center) is the Living Shangri-la Tower.
CTV News at 11:30pm with Keri Adams, Michael Kuss & Jason Pires (Jan 12, 2011)
Peter Grainger of CTV News BC interviewed Ronnie Miranda and featured the GigaPan technology and his various works. For the news feature which aired on Nov 17, 2010, Ronnie created a 1.8 gigapixel panorama of West Vancouver.
Coquitlam 360° is a 5.7 billion pixel image of Coquitlam, BC. The image is made up of 666 photos taken on Oct 21, 2010 from the rooftop of the Levo building.
Tri-City skyline captured
By Gary McKenna – The Tri-City News Published: November 16, 2010 3:00 PM Updated: November 17, 2010 7:11 AM
A Port Moody man took scenic photography to a new level last month in creating the first ever 360-degree panorama shot of the Tri-City skyline.
Using a specially designed computer program, Ronnie Miranda, a graphic designer and 3D animator, spent hours “stitching” together close to 700 images taken from the top of a building in Coquitlam’s city centre.
“The technology is basically used for education and research,” he said. “It was developed by NASA and they used it for the Mars Rovers expeditions.”
The images were selected from 1,000 photos he took using a GigaPan robot. With the help of the machine, shots from all angles are taken from one location, which can then be puzzle-pieced together using a computer.
The final product is a computer image that allows the viewer to see a 360-degree view of the region, something Miranda said has not been done before.
“We just shoot,” he said. “I go up to the highest point and look for the best view.”
This is not the first time Miranda has used the technology. Last summer, he shot a 240-degree skyline image of downtown Vancouver from the 58th floor of the Shangri-La, B.C.’s tallest building.
Since then, he has shot the Olympic Oval in Richmond, the ice rink at Robson Square and Ferguson Point at Stanley Park, along with several interior room and lobby shots of the Shangri-La Hotel.
His next project is expected to take him to Georgia, where he has been asked to shoot a football game using the GigaPan imager.
Vancouver West End is a 10 billion pixel, 100° West-to-North view of Vancouver, BC Canada. The image is a composite of 816 individual photos taken on May 8, 2010 from the 58th floor of Living Shangri-la Vancouver using a GigaPan EPIC 100, Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM.
This image was intended to be part of Vancouver 12 Gigapixels. The 2 gigapixel images could not be stitched together due a lot of misaligned photos caused by a broken EPIC 100 during the shoot which also affected image sharpness.
