GigaTag

Zoom, explore, and GigaTag!

GigaTag is a new innovation from GigaPan, the leader in gigapixel imaging. Zoom into the incredible detail to find your friends, celebrities, and yourself, then tag and share on Facebook. Dynamic and ultra-high resolution, these gigapans are integrated with social media to let you and your audience experience and share the event as if you’re there.

Promote, publicize, and drive traffic to your site

Supported by powerful GigaPan technology, GigaTag is ready to engage your audience in a rich, dynamic user interface.

As a complete turnkey solution, GigaTag allows you to:

• Embed your image on the websites of your choice
• Brand your image with your logo and information
• Receive support for implementation, hosting, and security

With GigaTag, your users can:

• Find and tag themselves and their friends, and optionally view tags added by others
• Post snapshots of the GigaPan to their Facebook wall, with a link back to your image

How it works

GigaTag is implemented using gigapan images. Gigapans are gigapixel panoramas—digital images with billions of pixels. They are huge panoramas with fascinating detail, all captured in the context of a single brilliant photo. Phenomenally large, yet remarkably crisp and vivid, gigapans are available to be explored at GigaPan.com.

As a complete turnkey solution, GigaTag makes it fun and easy to create your own high res gigapixel panoramas using GigaPan technology, embed on the websites of your choice, and engage your audience by allowing them to find and tag themselves and friends.

Set up your GigaPan with our Facebook app or your own, then embed. It’s that easy, and we are available for support from beginning to end. For detailed information please contact us using one of the methods in the sidebar for a free consultation.

1. Select the gigapan that you want to embed for Facebook tagging on your page.
2. Copy and paste HTML code that Gigapan will provide you with onto a page served within your domain.
3. Use our Facebook embedding wizard to generate your embed code.

Ready to get started?

GigaPan has the tools you need. We provide the equipment, software and support. Contact us today for a free quote. We look forward to hearing from you!

Questions? Contact Susan Thesing

Your project is important to us. Consider the following questions as you get started.

• General
  • Budget?
  • How many events will be covered?
• Venue
  • Location?
  • Lighting? Time of day?
  • How many attendees and their location?
• Camera & EPIC camera mount
  • Photographers? Hire or in-house training?
  • Camera?
  • Lenses?
• Integration
  • Does your organization have an existing Facebook application/page?
  • Location Scouting - location from which the image will be captured should be identified and scouted as early in the process as possible.

FAQ

Q: What is the average time it takes to set up?show

A: Depending on which method you use, it can take as little as 10 minutes.

Q: What is the ideal position to get the most of the stadium?show

A: You can capture different types of shots depending on the purpose / focus of the shot.

Q: How much time does it take to shoot the gigapan once you are set?show

A: It depends, but one recent example is 11:34 minutes to capture 180 photographs, as 18 columns by 10 rows NOTE: If you capture extra coverage photos by using the move camera function and using a cable release, it would take a few more minutes.

Q: What is your advice on the best time to start shooting (i.e. beginning of an inning)?show

A: You should start the capture as soon as you have a steady lighting condition with a good crowd for larger crowd-focused photographs. For example, you could capture photographs of the team and audience in the background from lower angle and between third base and home plate at the beginning of an image with a much shorter focal length such as 50mm to 85mm.

Q: How much time does it take to produce the finished file?show

A: It depends, but one recent example is 15:08 minutes to stitch a file in Gigapan Stitch, without vignetting correction and the image was not retouched. In this instance, the photographer loaded RAW files ( shot L jpeg as well ) into Adobe RAW, but did not make any WB or exposure changes and output them as 16 bit TIF. He could have used the jpeg files if he wanted.The best option is to use the 16 bit files with another workflow for retouching. You can retouch entire image with captured images, but much easier to retouch using other workflow.

Q: Is there a way to divvy-up the production work or would that be counterproductive?show

A: Splitting up the tasks can be a very productive strategy by using someone who is more skilled at retouching and who is fresh and waiting for the images. It is a good idea to have the photographer use the Gigapan Stitch software to understand the issues and provide better images to stitch and retouch in Photoshop. For example, the photographer can limit movement between shots by using the overlap region or using an extra coverage shot, which will help in the stitching process. The photographer can also help remove any obvious problems when shooting by using the overlap between photos.

GigaTag in the Wild

MLB 2010 Post-season and World Series GigaTags

See all the games and fans in the stadium with GigaPan vision. Find your friends, find yourself and tag on Facebook!

BBC News: GigaTag of Pope Benedict XVI in Birmingham

BBC News captures an amazing GigaPan of Pope Benedict XVI and a crowd of thousands in Birmingham during the Pope's visit to Britain.

Bonnaroo Music Festival GigaTags

The Bonnaroo Music Fesitival captured gigapans of the crowds at their 2009 concerts and embedded the images on the Bonaroo website for fans to find themselves, and link the images of their Facebook pages and blogs.