Valley Preferred Cycling Center 360° Panorama

Several weeks ago I was shooting at the VPCC and wanted to make a 360° panorama. I picked a central location in the infield and set the camera up on a tripod with a cable-release attached to the camera to release the shutter. The pano consists of about 15 images taken at about 20° intervals. The camera was just spun around on the tripod 360° taking photos along the way.

There are basically two formats to use when creating 360° panos: Flash or QTVR (Quick Time Virtual Reality). Since I think Flash sucks, QTVR was the only way to go. I used Adobe CS5 to stitch together all 15 images to make one large .jpg. CS5 did a pretty good job. There is only one part of the pano that doesn't match up, which I believe is "user error" on my part. I then fed that .jpg into Pano2VR to make the .mov file. In order to view the file below, you must have the Apple Quick Time plugin installed in your web browser.

Make a comment and tell me if it's cool or not.