Panoramas and Vertoramas

Panoramas and Vertoramas

"A panorama is, in its original usage, a wide angle horizontal image. In fact, it's a horizontal image painted in a complete circle around a room. That was in the late 1700s, though, and by the time the idea got to photography, it had been watered down to some degree, generally describing any image with a field of view greater than 100º, and then eventually any really wide image at all."  History shows that the term “Panorama” was coined by the painter Robert Barker who exhibited his paintings in London in 1792. His paintings were placed on the inside of a cylinder to be viewed from the inside. His exhibitiom was entitled “The Panorama”.

Read about the largest indoor panorama in the world, taken by Jeffrey Martin in the Strahov Monastery in Prague and stitched from 2947 images.

On the one hand, "vertorama" is clearly a term people use, and it's pretty easy to understand immediately what's meant. There are over 130,000 pictures in a Vertorama flickr pool.

Vertical subjects are naturals for vertically oriented panorama (some people now refer to such images as "vertoramas"). – Real World Digital Photography, by Eismann, Duggan, and Grey. A word created by combining two or more existing words is called a portmanteau, and they're quite common. A few examples that come to mind: Spanglish, Franglais, brunch, frenemy, motel, prosumer.

 Early versions date back to 1860 with the “vertical panorama” of the Church of S.Giobbe in Venice which is displayed in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Farbspiel’s HDR Cookbook posts: Taking Interior HDR Vertorama Shots and Taking HDR Vertorama Shots with a Tripod where extremely detailed description of the shooting process as well as useful tips and advice are discussed.

Read about the largest indoor panorama in the world, taken by Jeffrey Martin in the Strahov Monastery in Prague and stitched from 2947 images.

HDR Vertorama

The basics behind capturing and stitching a HDR vertorama / tiltorama are almost the same as an equirectangular panorama. The only difference is that, unlike an equirectangular panorama, a vertorama represents a vertical field of view. If you are new to this kind of photography, please familiarise yourself with my previous posts: Vertorama – Vertical Panorama, Equirectangular Panorama and HDR Panorama to get an overview of HDR and panoramic photography.

disclaimer: this is all pasted from google sources, not my own writing