A Study of Techniques for Ceating Panoramic Photograph of Street Line on Thapae Road

Abstract

This research article presents result and the discussion of the result from research which studied the guidelines and the technique for creating panoramic image of long stretching city street line by stitching photographs which are taken with Multi-Perspective photography technique. The study began with literature review on method and technique from related document and creative works then use the acquired knowledge to create panoramic images of buildings and architectures on Thapae Road, Chiang Mai, which is one of the historically important areas full of traces of development into modern era of the society and the city of Chiang Mai.

The outcomes of this study consisted of panoramic cityscape of buildings on both sides of Thapae Road presented in a form of two completed panoramic images which are shown in the research result section of the article, as well as an example of application of the images to present them the form of an accordion photobook, and techniques and method for creating such images. The mentioned method begins with photographing the intended area that would be turned into panoramic image, where the creator should study the lighting condition at different times in the area as well as the suitable weather condition to reduce the differences between each photograph before photographing the area with Multi-Perspective method, which is photographing the façade of each building and move the camera along the buildings on the street instead of panning the camera from a single point of view as in normal panoramic photography, and shoot each photograph with sufficient overlapping area for later stitching. The photographs are then edited and stitched together into panoramic image with a computer program. It was found in the last step that the photographs are unable to be stitched automatically using computer program command due to various image distortion problems that were caused by multi-perspective photography technique; this forced the researcher to stitch the photographs by himself, which required a long period of time. However, these image distortion problems present opportunities for further research in this technique of panoramic image creation. The details will be discussed in the result discussion section within this article.