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Competition: Hit Me with Your Best Shot

Hit Me with Your Best Shot

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Winners of the ““Hit Me with Your Best Shot” GigaPan Photo Competition are:

1st Place: Jose Maria Lopez - Sagrada Familia
2nd Place: Jason Bucheim - Aspen Highlands Maroon Bowl in 3-D Stereo with Pyramid Peak, Maroon Bells, and Hayden Peak
3rd Place: Karim Saad - Sheikh Zayed Road | Dubai HD
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To view the winners' gigapan images, please visit this page: www.gigapan.com/competitions/114/gigapans
Thank you to everyone who participated. View all the submissions for “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” below!

Competitions Stats

Sponsored by: GigaPan Curator
Enter by: Submission period over.
Number of Entries: 69
Average Size: 2.03785 gigapixels

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Competition Entries:

voting ends February 01, 2013, 12:00AM


  1. Hanauma Bay is one of the most popular tourist destinations on the island of O`ahu, Hawai`i. I took this panorama with the initial beta model GigaPan unit, and a 8 megapixel Canon S5-IS P&S camera. With a 12x optical zoom, and a 1.5x tele-extender, the effective focal length is approximately 650 mm. Wave movement ...

    • 16508-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      53
      Comments
      21
      Snapshots
      551
      Total Views
      845406
      Explore Score
      172

      • Meta

        Size
        5.63 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 30, 2012
        Date Taken
        May 19, 2008
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      • Number of Votes:

        25

        Average Ranking:

        3.08

  2. This is a redo of an existing gigapan. This time, I've reworked the originals as if they were taken on B&W panchromatic film with a dark red filter, adjusting the exposure so that the clouds and the white water of the waterfalls are pure white. This loses a lot of shadow detail due to the limitations of dynamic range o...

    • 126579-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      4
      Total Views
      685
      Explore Score
      1

      • Meta

        Size
        1.23 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 29, 2012
        Date Taken
        July 25, 2009
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      • Number of Votes:

        17

        Average Ranking:

        2.12

  3. Re-stitched to fix artifacts in the central building. See gigapan.org/gigapans/37405/ for what the stitcher does. Did the building by hand in photoshop and merged with the sides done in the stitcher. The original images were each centered on a window in the building, and the stitcher really wanted to think th...

    • 114107-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      1
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      9
      Total Views
      1626
      Explore Score
      3

      • Meta

        Size
        0.59 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 07, 2012
        Date Taken
        December 20, 2009
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      • Number of Votes:

        16

        Average Ranking:

        2.19

  4. Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a significant National Historic Site by the government of Canada. It was a British colonial town established in 1753 to introduce Protestant colonists into the Colony when it was largely populated only by Catholic French Acadians an...

    • Order Print
      106144-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      9
      Total Views
      3768
      Explore Score
      14

      • Meta

        Print Pricing
        $55.99 to $282.99
        Size
        0.05 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 18, 2012
        Date Taken
        October 27, 2009
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      • Number of Votes:

        23

        Average Ranking:

        2.48

  5. Fall Season, acquired on 10-17-2009 Mosaic from: 4 rows, 58 columns, 236 images Camera model: NIKON D90 Image size: 4288x2848 (12.2 megapixels) Capture time: 2009-10-17 17:25:35 Aperture: f/22 Exposure time: 0.0666667 ISO: 200 Focal length (35mm equiv.): 450.0 mm Digital zoom: off White b...

    • 104033-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      1
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      3
      Total Views
      1223
      Explore Score
      1

      • Meta

        Size
        0.50 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 18, 2012
        Date Taken
        October 18, 2009
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      • Number of Votes:

        17

        Average Ranking:

        1.94

  6. Berat Castle is built on a rocky hill on the left bank of the river Osum and is accessible only from the south. After being burned down by the Romans in 200 B.C. the walls were strengthened in the fifth century under Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II, and were rebuilt during the 6th century under the Emperor Justinian an...

    • 97660-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      6
      Total Views
      5596
      Explore Score
      13

      • Meta

        Size
        1.72 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 11, 2012
        Date Taken
        September 07, 2009
        Categories
         
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      • Number of Votes:

        13

        Average Ranking:

        2.15

  7. View over Constance (Germany) from one tower of the cathedral. On the left side the biggest part of the Bodensee (Obersee), on the other side the smallest one (Untersee). In the background Kreuzlingen (Switzerland)... no visible border. Source: 170 freehand photos :)

    • Order Print
      81661-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      1
      Comments
      4
      Snapshots
      14
      Total Views
      4923
      Explore Score
      63

      • Meta

        Print Pricing
        $7.99 to $79.99
        Size
        0.55 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 04, 2012
        Date Taken
        June 25, 2009
        Categories
         
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      • Number of Votes:

        23

        Average Ranking:

        2.39

  8. Halong Bay's spectacular limestone islands--nearly 2000 of them--stretch to every horizon from the top of Dao Titop, an island that has a staircase leading up the steep slopes to an overlook at the top. This is an unparalleled oceanscape for exploring by chartered junk and kayak. Hidden floating fishing villages in qui...

    • 41296-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      8
      Comments
      3
      Snapshots
      7
      Total Views
      6000
      Explore Score
      67

      • Meta

        Size
        0.47 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 11, 2012
        Date Taken
        January 10, 2009
        Categories
         
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      • Number of Votes:

        29

        Average Ranking:

        2.93

  9. Taken looking north from the pond at 7,505 Ft on the north side of Mt Adams in Washington State. This was the view looking out of my tent in the morning around 05:00.

    • 22993-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      2
      Comments
      3
      Snapshots
      1
      Total Views
      5325
      Explore Score
      8

      • Meta

        Size
        0.11 Gigapixels
        Added
        December 20, 2012
        Date Taken
        July 19, 2008
        Categories
         
        Tags

      • Number of Votes:

        15

        Average Ranking:

        2.60