Self Indulgent Idle Fun March 19 2011, 7:57pm via studio343.jp

Since our last post here on the studio343 blog the calamity that has befallen Japan, and Tohoku in particular, has taken the wind out of our sails…thinking of what has happened to so many people and also the possibility of what may occur in Fukushima and responding in any meaningful way has been a struggle.

Time to experiment. For a long time I have wanted to try a spherical panorama inside the Hirafu Gondola. There are a few problems to sort out. Usually when shooting panoramas I carefully make sure the tripod set up is level, there is no movement and I calculate or anticipate when movement may occur in the images and shoot with these things in mind. I had to throw out the rule book when shooting this one – movement everywhere on every level.

Happy with the end result but by no means perfect. Here are a few different projections which made me laugh…mission accomplished.

Thanks for reading and lets keep our chins up.