Still from "Haiti 360º"
“Panoramic photos and videos and how to create them” is a great post that “10,000 Words” featured on February 17. The featured video panoramas — in which you can pan 360 degrees, zoom and pause all while riding on the car or head of a journalist — are truly incredibly, at least from a technological point of view.
As always with “Wow!” technology, I find myself asking, “What’s the point?,” or, perhaps less cynically, “What is a real, applicable use for this technology for working non-journalist photographers?”
While I couldn’t come up with a good, clear answer to this question, you should still really check out the “Wow!” technology featured in this post. After all, technological innovations always come before practical applications, and so my posing (let alone trying to answer) the “why?” question is probably inappropriate.
Wedding photographers may or may not be able to market panoramic videos. What’s important is to understand how quickly this technology is advancing. I myself was startled. It really is amazing. Continue reading “Panoramic Photos and Videos on Steroids”