My World: my 3 days in Switzerland :)

Valentin Arfire · Aug 21, 2011

Hello dear friends,

here are the links to the panoramas I took there this August in Switzerland, inspired by the places and their beauty

Feedback is of course much appreciated

Zug - is the capital of the smallest canton of Switzerland named as well Zug - is on the shore og the Zug lake

Asher Kelman · Aug 21, 2011

Valentin,

Your pictures have so much richness to mine. I feel that these great panos can be introduced with text and excerpts like this:

Valentin Arfire: Untitled

Extracted from spherical Panorama here

There's so much text in a list of Panos that I fear just that alone, undersells your hard work and artistic achievements.

Asher

Valentin Arfire · Aug 22, 2011

thank you kindly Asher for the kind words

here are the last panoramas I shot during my short visit to this paradise - Switzerland: Weggis and Kussnach near the lake (I have used SNS HDR for those)

http://www.360cities.net/image/kussnacht-a-august-8-2011-switzerland#0.00,0.00,70.0

http://www.360cities.net/image/kussnacht-lakeshore-b-august-8-2011-switzerland#134.89,2.65,70.0

http://www.360cities.net/image/kussnacht-lakeshore-c-august-8-2011-switzerland#28.89,-7.06,70.0

http://www.360cities.net/image/weggis-baroque-church-august-8-2011-switzerland#0.00,0.00,70.0

http://www.360cities.net/image/weggis-square-august-8-2011-switzerland#-36.14,6.34,70.0

Asher Kelman · Aug 22, 2011

Valentin Arfire said:
thank you kindly Asher for the kind words

here are the last panoramas I shot during my short visit to this paradise - Switzerland: Weggis and Kussnach near the lake (I have used SNS HDR for those)

Valentin,

I'm having a great time exploring the places you visit by the lakeside. I think a lot about the subject matter and how to experience the spherical panos. Some open fast and there's an abundance to enjoy.

Some, however, take a longer time to open and then within there are several fabulous views which have to be discovered. Still, it's a large investment in time for the viewer. I think that just in these cases, where the people are not cooperating and just passing by, (it's different in you camera meets as the photographer's are always interesting), it might be best to just have flat panos extracted from your spherical panoramas and this would be a better experience for us.

This spherical panorama is perfect for viewing and shouldn't be missed! It's an interior of an architecturally impressive church that is decorated inside and kept up so it's both interesting in every possible view. It also loads faster. So there's a greater reward for less effort. I decided that panos really work best when all the views are splendid, like this one.

I'm still learning here. As internet speeds become faster, the ease of looking at these large files will mean no time delay. In the meanwhile, I'd love to know what the fastest technology, (using our current internet connections) for viewing these panos might be. I think that perhaps the entire file should be downloaded compressed and then viewed from the local hard drive not called from your far-away server!

Asher

Valentin Arfire · Aug 22, 2011

the presentation on the internet of the 360 degree depend mainly on the connection both of the navigator and the hosting of the image
for instance if I were to verify the speed to a panorama I put on a website in Romania and compare it to 360cities of course given the number of hits and the fact that many of the panoramas are indexed on Google Earth + the fact it was optimized precisely for this kind of images, the result is clearly in favor of 360cities.net.

Dear Asher
Leaving the final viewer a decision to decide it prefers a certain zoom, tilt or suddenly decides to rotate in a different place, to me it seems I leave him a liberty I shouldn't force.
Regarding some projections you are so passionate, they tell a story, they picture a reality in a different, unusual way, but soon may become cliche and like any abuse will turn kitsch. this is what I most fear.
At the end of the nineteenth century, panoramas were in great esteem, buildings were built in order to house them... now the "panorama" word is often abused and the people are teach not to appreciate it.

If I may, I'd recommend a multi-layered krpano presentation so that the initial image will load fast given the reduced size of it and as the visitor zooms to obtain more details, the player loads only a few tiles, not the entire panorama - the result is a fast navigation and operating of the player.
Pano2VR also has from version 3.0 a multi-layer technology - adding it to the html5 ready solution it makes it a good piece of software to use.
I don't like to spend much time on the computer but my workflow now consists in much of it; adding some planar images, to me is often very much time-consuming and your enthusiasm in viewing them is shared by only a few.

Martin Evans · Aug 29, 2011

Valentin: what fabulous views of that beautiful contry! Some of the town scenes are so intimate that one almost feels able to walk across and buy a beer or a strudel. You must have had an extremely busy three days to get so much photography done. I hope that you had some time left to enjoy yourself in other ways too.

Best wishes,

Martin

Valentin Arfire · Aug 29, 2011

Thank you Martin

Actually yes - I feel safe with the camera and now more confident: in Switzerland I took all the pictures with no fear that somebody may get offended or upset; now to me the paradise has definitely a place here on earth.

There are places I took more pictures in short period of time but in this case I do feel more rewarded

Here is another one from Zug lake http://www.360cities.net/image/marina-zug-august-6th-2011-switzerland#-343.52,8.26,70.0

and on my way back, I changed the train in Budapest

http://www.360cities.net/image/budapest-keleti-pu-hall#0.00,0.00,70.0

Lawrence Brussel · Sep 13, 2011

wow

the pictures looks so real, I thought, you have added some 3D effects in them

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