Will Pearson and some history of panoramic images.

After I had googled 'Panoramic Photographers' and various other searches the most popular panoramic photographer seemed to be someone named 'Will Pearson'.

Will Pearson has been a panoramic photographer for over 15 years and is London based (his panoramas consist mainly of places in London but seems to do other cities also).

After browsing through his website for a while I have found some variety in his work as he also takes panoramas using a variety of different cameras, one of them being a gigapixel camera (extremely high resolution cameras) and does 360 virtual tours amongst taking pictures of cityscapes and landscapes.

But from just looking at the pictures he has taken, it is clear that he is very talented in what he does.



These are just two examples (of many) from his website but in my opinion the pictures taken are interesting and atmospheric, in other words fantastic. The second picture is one of my favorites due to the style, colors and 'deserted' like atmosphere.

http://www.willpearson.co.uk/gallery.php

The link above takes you directly to the page in his site that contains interactive 360 panoramas, again, all of which are impressive.

Of course there are many more panoramic photographers but if we turn back the clock to around 1843 we can learn something about the origins of panoramic photography. The term 'panorama' had been around long before but it wasn't actually until 1843 when the first recorded patent for a panoramic camera was put forward.

One of the first recorded patents was from an Austrian man named 'Joseph Puchberger'. The patent he put forward was for a hand-cranked, 150° field of view, 8 inch focal length camera.

This is an example of a panoramic picture - or rather a set of pictures put into a panorama. It was taken in 1851 and of course back then they didn't have any software (or computers for that matter!) that could blend these images together.