360° VR Photography:
Shooting and Stitching 360° VR Panoramas:
General 360° Photography and Panorama Stitching Tutorials:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouOEM4cKKGc&list=PL15B8C737F69319BE
- http://www.rosaurophotography.com/html/technical0.html
- http://www.panoramic-photo-guide.com/contents-panoramic-photography.html
- http://michel.thoby.free.fr/
Find the No Parallax-Point:
(incorrectly known as nodal point)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jAhwFLimM0
- http://www.outline.be/tuto/
- http://www.johnhpanos.com/epcalib.htm
360° Panorama Stitching Software:
- https://www.ptgui.com
- http://www.kolor.com/autopano/
- http://www.easypano.com/panorama-stitching-software.html
- http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm
- http://hugin.sourceforge.net (Free Open Source Software)
- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/
360° VR Panorama Stitching Software Tutorials:
PTGUI tutorials:
Autopano Pro and Autopano Giga tutorial:
Hugin Tutorials:
Understanding Image Projections and Distortion in 360° Photography:
- http://www.ptgui.com/man/projections.html
- http://www.kolor.com/wiki-en/action/view/Understanding_Projecting_Modes
- http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-projections.htm
- http://www.tawbaware.com/projections.htm
- http://wiki.panotools.org/Projections
General/Advanced Photography:
HDR & Exposure Fusion:
- http://www.hdrlabs.com
- http://panomagic.eu/en/2455/hdr-panoramic-review/
- http://beforethecoffee.com/bracketing-number-of-images/
- http://beforethecoffee.com/photomatix-tutorial/
- http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/
- http://wiki.panotools.org/RAW_dynamic_range_extraction
360° Spherical Panoramic Photography Tripod Heads:
Panoramic Photography Lens Database:
Other Resources:
Advanced 360° Panorama Tutorials:
How to Shoot Automobile Interior Panoramas:
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/panoramicphotographers/permalink/1212188962158546/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/panoramicphotographers/permalink/946474932063285/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/panoramicphotographers/permalink/1104887226222054/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/panoramicphotographers/permalink/642693295774785/
How to Shoot Orthographic (Linear Multi Viewpoint) Panoramas:
- http://panoramastreetline.com/news/linear-streetline-panorama-vs-classic-360-panorama/
- https://panospace.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/linear-panoramas-mosaic-tutorial/
- http://vis.berkeley.edu/courses/cs294-69-fa11/wiki/images/2/26/Long_Scenes.pdf
- http://www.dojoe.net/tutorials/linear-pano/
How to Shoot Pole Panoramas:
- http://www.airpano.com/Articles-AirPano.php?article=100940
- http://www.nodalninja.com/forum/showthread.php?4408-Galleries-of-panoramas-shot-on-Fanotec-poles
How to Shoot and Stitch Stereoscopic (3D or Anaglyph) Panoramas:
- http://www.airpano.com/360Degree-VirtualTour.php?3D=Stereo-360-panorama
- http://www.nodalninja.com/forum/tutorial-How-to-make-a-spherical-3D-panorama
- http://paulbourke.net/stereographics/stereopanoramic/
How to Shoot a "Flying Willy" Aerial Panorama:
360° Virtual Tours:
360° Virtual Tour Software:
- http://krpano.com
- http://www.kolor.com/panotour/
- http://ggnome.com/pano2vr
- http://www.easypano.com
- http://www.marzipano.net (Free Open Source Software)
360° VR Panorama Display Software Tutorials:
Pano2VR Tutorials:
KRPano Tutorials:
PanoTour Pro Tutorials:
Other Panoramic PhotographyTools:
- http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-2.html
- http://www.andrewhazelden.com/blog/2012/11/domemaster-photoshop-actions-pack/
Free 360° Panorama & Virtual Tour Software:
Free 360° Panorama Stitching Software:
- http://hugin.sourceforge.net - Free Open Source Software for 360° Spherical Panorama Stitching
Free 360° Virtual Tour Software:
- http://www.marzipano.net - Free Open Source Software for 360° Virtual Tours HTML5 web viewer
- http://forgejs.org - Free Open Source Virtual Reality Javascript Framework, supports 360 still panoramas & 360° video
- https://developers.google.com/vr/concepts/vrview - Free Open Source Software for 360° panoramas and video HTML5 web viewer
- https://pannellum.org - Free Open Source Software for 360° Spherical Panorama HTML5 web viewer
Creating 360° VR Panoramas using DIY hardware & free software:
- http://www.tilmanbremer.de/2011/09/panoramic-photography-revealed-part-i-hardware-for-panoramic-photography-diy/
- http://www.tilmanbremer.de/2011/10/panoramic-photography-revealed-part-ii-creating-perfect-panoramas-the-open-source-way/
- http://www.tilmanbremer.de/2012/05/panoramic-photography-revealed-part-iii-creating-virtual-tours-the-open-source-way/
Google Street View Panoramas
Creating Street View Virtual Tours
- https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7012050?hl=en&ref_topic=6275604
- https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7011737?hl=en&ref_topic=6275604
Uploading 360° Panoramas created with DSLR to Google Street View
Google Street View Photosphere GPano Metadata
- http://panoramaphotographer.com/software/exiffixer/
- https://developers.google.com/streetview/spherical-metadata
- http://tonyredhead.com/google-/non-android-photospheres-mac-osx
- http://exsight360.com/blog/how-to-upload-non-android-360-panoramas-to-google-maps/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/panoramicphotographers/permalink/761687820541998/
- http://www.panotwins.de/technical/how-to-add-mandatory-photo-sphere-meta-data-to-an-equirectangular-image/
Facebook 360 Photos
Metadata for Facebook 360° Photos:
- http://panoramaphotographer.com/software/exiffixer/
- https://www.facebook.com/notes/eric-cheng/editing-360-photos-injecting-metadata/10156930564975277
Embed 360° VR panoramas in a Facebook post:
- https://ivrpa.org/tutorial/embedding-panoramas-in-social-media/
- http://ggnome.com/wiki/Embedding_and_formatting_for_social_networks_(Pano2VR)
- http://www.kolor.com/wiki-en/action/view/Panotour_Documentation_-_Web_Publishing#Sharing_a_tour_on_Facebook
Hosting and Sharing 360° Panoramas & Virtual Tours
Free 360° Panorama & Virtual Tour Hosting Websites
- http://www.360cities.net
- https://roundme.com
- http://sky.easypano.com
- https://www.spinattic.com
- https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/
Hosting 360° VR Panoramas & 360° Video on Amazon AWS S3:
Embed 360° VR Panoramas & Virtual Tours in WordPress:
360° Video & Virtual Reality:
360° Video Workflow Tutorials:
- http://freedom360.us/tutorials/
- http://stateofvr.com
- https://github.com/making360/making360/releases
- http://www.purplepillvr.com/best-encoding-settings-resolution-for-4k-360-3d-vr-videos/
360° Video Stitching Software:
360° Video Cameras & Camera Arrays:
- http://freedom360.us
- http://www.izugar.com/
- https://theta360.com/en/
- http://kodakpixpro.com/Americas/cameras/actioncam/sp3604k/
- http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-360/
- http://www.lg.com/us/lg-friends/lg-LGR105.AVRZTS-360-cam
- https://ozo.nokia.com
360° Video Stitching Tutorials:
How to create a 360° video in Autopano Video 2.2 - The full workflow:
How to stitch VR 360 video with only basic After Effects plugins:
Photographers Legal Rights & Business Contracts:
Photographers Rights:
- Bert Krages "Photographers Rights":
- ACLU info:
- Research paper about your rights to take pictures of pretty much anything visible from public ground:
- UK Photographers Rights -
Photography Contract Templates:
- http://www.docracy.com/topic/0p4nowm2xu3/photography-contracts
- http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/photography/articles/14258.aspx
- https://nppa.org/page/5130
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photographers-contract-maker/id356115074
More info coming soon !