North Uist Panoramas – Udal

This first one is from a ‘wheelhouse‘ (so called because the walls of the rooms look like the spokes of a wheel if viewed from above) from the Udal site at the North of the island, which was excavated over many years.

07 Coileagan An Udal (wheelhouse at Udal)

This second one is a nearby midden where you can see the layers of limpet shells in the wall of sand.

08 Midden at Udal

If you click this Roundme image it will load the space & let you click between the 2x different panoramas & drag them with your mouse/finger to look around. Once it’s loaded you can double click to go fullscreen (highly recommended).

North Uist Panoramas – Langass

The first in a series of posts showing some of the spherical panoramas I took on the Isle of North Uist this summer, while working with Taigh Chearsabhagh. These two are from the very first site I shot after going out to the island & one of the most visited by tourists to the island (possibly thanks to its proximity to a main road). After stitching these it became evident that completely clear or completely overcast skies looked quite dull & ‘scattered cloud’ is where it’s at for panoramas.

This is a burial chamber that sits at the top of the Langass hill. We came back up here a few days later when the weather was even better & you could easily see right to the horizon.

04 Barpa Langass (chambered cairn at Langass)

And this is a stone circle called Pobull Fhinn, which lies on one side of the hill toward the water (there’s water everywhere on North Uist).

02 Pobull Fhinn (stone circle at Langass)

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Ahmor Barp & Panorama Process

Yesterday I got taken out to another archaeological site, in the Ahmor area of North Uist, this one a ‘barp’ (a mound or cairn of stones) about an hour’s walk inland from the road. I don’t really know much about shooting landscapes, but since coming to North Uist & shooting these panoramas I’ve noticed that scattered clouds make for much more interesting images than either completely clear or completely overcast skies. It also helps the panorama software, as a large expanse of flat blue or grey doesn’t have any features for the software to pick up on & match between adjacent images. Yesterday was the perfect example of this & I’m really pleased with how the panorama I shot up next to the barp came out.

So how do we go from this bunch of images…

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To this 360×150 eqirectangular panorama?

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Dun an Sticir

Some stills taken around Dun an Sticir, one of the many little island forts dotted around North Uist. One of the spherical panoramas, which I took from halfway along one of the stone causeways between the islands, actually makes for an interesting photo when viewed flat like this (with a bit of the sides cropped off).

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