360 Degree Panoramic Photography


Learn the tools, techniques, and creative possibilities of 360º Panoramic photography

Jook LeungDigital imaging and Apple Computer's Quicktime VR have now made this all-seeing imaging format widely accessible. Electronically, 360 degree Virtual Reality panoramas are seen as virtual tours on the internet by creating an interactive immersive virtual viewing environment. For print, the ultra wide vistas offer a fresh new 360° perspective of environments and spaces.

This comprehensive workshop covers camera and lens choices, setups for shooting panoramas with regular digital cameras, image capture techniques for 360° panoramas, aesthetic considerations, processing, stitching and editing the 360° image, and finally presenting the images for the web and print.

Participants experience a hands-on introduction to the tools, methods and advanced techniques that change the way one visualizes, shoots and presents 360° panoramas. Participants not only explore creating virtual tours for the e-commerce industry but also explore new image projections that translate panoramas into an infinite world of new visual interpretations.

Participants work with their own digital cameras, using ultra-wide angle and fisheye lenses and then assemble the panorama from a series of overlapping images using a variety of stitching software products.  Photo-editing and remapping software is used to process final panoramic images.

Online interactive reference - instructor's website:   http://360vr.com/

Instructors

Jook Leung

Jook Leung Photo By: Dan EldridgeJook Leung is internatuonally recognized as an innovator in spherical panoramic photogrpahy. 

In a rare achievement, he was presented with his third consecutive Fujifilm Masterpiece Award for photographic excellence for his outstanding 360 degree panoramas by the International Association of Panoramic Photographers (IAPP).

Jook's experience spans 30 years as a commercial photographer in NYC and in Englewood, NJ. He has been specializing in 360 degree panoramas for the last 14 years. 

His most stunning images are usually urban landscapes inside a 360 defree panoramic bubble. There he reveals unseen narratives while also seeking an intimacy with the subjects in full context with its surroundings. He puts the viewer right in the middle of it. The choice of camera lens for this continuous perspective is ultra wide, usually several fisheye images are merged together to create a continuous 360 degree view.

Jook Leung's 360 degree Virtual Reality images are visually vivid and uniquely conceptual. His strong sense for color, lighting and compositions are evident in his 360VR work. Experience what he saw, felt and heard as a 360 observer. His website for his 360 degree panoramic images is http://360vr.com contact email: info@360vr.com