See what it feels like to be at the Beijing Olympic Stadium

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photography Links

Photographers readying to shoot the men's 100m final at Beijing National Stadium on Saturday (Photo by Kari Kuukka)

A new frontier within photography is dawning. Powerful software is allowing photographers to do amazing things, from HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, which allows photographers to capture a substantially larger range of tones by combining a number of different exposures, to rich multimedia slideshows and interactive presentations which are allowing photojournalists to tell their stories through the best means possible by combining sound, video and still photographs.

Another of these technologies is becoming more and more popular. 360 degree interactive panoramic photography, as seen in Google earth’s ’streetview’ has an incredible ability, even beyond the power of the motion picture and video, to recreate atmosphere and tangible sense of place.

One of the best examples I’ve seen of this is a 360 degree high resolution panorama, shot by sports shooter Kari Kuukka from a photographer’s corral about 30 minutes before the start of the men’s 100m final at Beijing National Stadium last Saturday. For me, this single image recreates what it would be like to be in the Olympic Stadium better than anything else I have ever seen.

To view the Flash panorama in its own window, click here. The Shift key will zoom in, the Command (Mac) / Control (Windows) key will zoom out. Click and hold down the mouse button inside the photo to navigate around.


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Permalink | August 21st, 2008

2 Responses to “See what it feels like to be at the Beijing Olympic Stadium”

  1. Stewart Macdonald Says:
    August 21st, 2008 at 8:24 am

    Woah. That’s a lot of L-glass!

    Stewart

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