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1 Shasha Zhao Tech 1705 Technology and Culture 1 Jesse Gilbert December 3rd, Degree Panoramic Photography 360-degree panoramic photography gives a person a kind of unprecedented browsing experience, which let you never leave home but can be able to feel the scene of the immersive feel environment. 360-degree panoramic photography is actually used the camera ring 360 -degree from a set of photos, and specialized software seamless splicing proceeds a panoramic image, then USES the flash technology for SWF format images (Huysmans, 373). While it seems that 360-degree no angel photography gives a lot new experience to people, it also has a price to pay as it hurts the art. From ordinary shooting we can see only part of the scene and imagine the rest by ourselves. But with panoramic photography there is nothing to imagine anymore, as everything just lies bare before our eyes, we lose more than what we have. 360-degree panorama is a high cost performance solution for virtual reality. 360-degree panoramic photography is to use real photos to get three-dimensional feeling. This is the general image and 3D modeling cannot achieve (Isin, 220). 360-degree panoramic photography and general image can have the effect of display and record, but the general picture of Angle of view scope is limited, no stereo feeling, and 360-degree panoramic photography has a 360-degree Angle, not only can bring more three-dimensional sense, allow observers to immersion. 3D modeling of stereo feeling and immersive definitely stronger than 360-degree panorama, but 3D modeling of production is need a lot of manpower material resources, especially the very real hope is reached, and 360-degree panoramic shot and make relatively are very simple and convenient, especially the data volume is small, low system requirements, suitable for all kinds of ways, all kinds of terminal equipment (Murray, 159). So 360-degree panoramic view not only can the omni-directional field condition of a record somewhere sometime, somewhere more can let we will live in a three-dimensional way, such a high cost performance display and record is general images and 3D modeling 1

2 fundamental can't do. When we need real, intuitive and comprehensive of a scene, is used to record or display, 360-degree panorama is undoubtedly the best choice. Baudrillard s advanced research put forward the concept of "hyperreality". I understand that "hyperreality" is a criticism of the real. In the digital age, people perceive the world has become the electronic screen to show the world, the essence of which is a series of codes, the key lies in the fact that the codes can produce world than originally in the real world and the world of traditional media performance more freely. Baudrillard's theory with the continuous development of digital media has become more and more close to reality. In recent years, represented by the iphone, the device of digital mobile terminal has become the important channel for people to obtain information (Palmer, 161). Compared with the traditional media platform, digital mobile terminal has special properties, more special functions. Development of digital mobile terminal applications, can't just stay on transferring the traditional media to digital terminal, and must give full play to the function of new media platforms to build real news belongs to a new digital mobile terminal mode. At the end of last century, with the development of digital technology, represented by IPIX companies in the United States a panoramic view of software began to flourish. Even today, there have been many domestic panoramic photo software and a lot of panoramic photography BBS. Panoramic photography thus came into being. The press for panoramic photography, however, are still less, the current can be detected only by SMW network launched in 2010 "SMW 360" columns, but the response. It is a panoramic photos are difficult (Prensky, 5); Second, even if the use of new digital player, panoramic photos still can't get good viewing experience, image edge distortion. Although computer screen panoramic photos can be "end to end", but they are still watch on a two-dimensional plane, can't get a panoramic view of real experience. But the two problems with the popularity of digital technology, especially digital mobile terminal have been basically overcome. On the one hand, that need to be professional equipment to complete panoramic photo is "flying off the shelves. Apple, for example, from the beginning of the iphone, the iphone series products of the built-in camera application has been able to generate panoramic photos, ordinary people also can panoramic photographs taken by themselves. 2

3 On the other hand, the gyroscope technology matures, provides a basis for a panoramic view of the immersive experience. By measuring the angular velocity of the object rotates, the digital processor speed of diagonal terminal point, resulting in mobile digital terminal the Angle of rotation within a certain period of time. For example, many digital terminals can perceive its state is in vertical or horizontal, which is adjusted for portrait or landscape, is the embodiment of the function of gyroscope. In apple network application platform was hot Star Walk (Star roaming), that is, the universe will be map made into spherical panoramic images, through horizontal gyroscope orientation, which can realize the user's screen to the sky, the sky will appear on the screen of the Star image, realized the "space walk" visual experience. This means that if the Star Walk into a panoramic photo of map, can realize the audience turn hand digital mobile terminal, see what happens to the other corner of the world through a screen of the news fact, even the Angle, azimuth and there is no difference in the news scene. Information, all this is in keeping with Baudrillard "hyperreality society" theory, new features, news photography with digital mobile terminal will be able to let the human vision extends to every corner of the world. At present, the company is developing a more innovative digital mobile terminal "Google glasses", cover the electronic screen directly in the eyes. If today's digital mobile terminals combined with panoramic news photography is just open a window to the scene of the news, so, once represented by "Google glasses" digital mobile terminal became popular, panoramic photo can provide visual experience and in the news site. About whether photography is or is not art? For the starting point of this discussion, you should recite at the beginning of the invention of photography. This function, even now, is still photography as a medium to survive a major part of the reason. At the beginning of the development, the artist will use photography as a tool rather than mediums of art creation, the artist often use pictures to help his own painting. Photography, on the other hand, even as a recording tool, for painting, in the beginning of its birth, also has a certain threat. Baudelaire in 1859, described the photography is "art 'smost mortal enemy". Photography to simplify the creation steps reduces the threshold, and at this point, if the photography as an art medium had no intention of is equivalent to 3

4 lowering the threshold of the art. For example, a portrait in photography came along, the only as a noble royal family and to have the privilege of the rich. A good portrait, a trial for art craftsmen technology while photography suddenly simplifies it. Want to compared with painting, photography, simple operation, 10 years of painting practice, even more than more than half a minute exposure at the beginning of the invention are very slow (photography). And costs have fallen sharply, the portrait of the cost down. Portrait is no longer a symbol of privilege, and the portrait painter also faces the huge threat in that moment. But even photography as an intruder, all aspects of the rejection in the first place, there are still some photographers believe that photography can be used as a separate media, become works of art. In modern Photography (modern refers to before 1950, after called contemporary), there are two different style of Photography is worth to introduce, respectively is Pictorialism and Straight Photography. As two relatively independent styles, Pictorialism compared to Straight, history should be a little bit longer, but also influence each other. Pictorialist is earlier insisted that photography as an art medium, need to get rid of the photography of the original mission, namely simple recording tool (Rubenstein, 115). Pictorialism style is not very uniform, but largely abandoned photography inherent clear and precise details, move into a more vague and poetic. Although Pictorialism photography is an art medium, observe its work is not hard to find photographers in the effort to actually painting please. Photographer puts into the image of the still life or, more similar to traditional painting of the object. And even in the photography of daily life, but also because of late deliberately in photography or reduce its clarity, thus make photos more mysterious and ambiguity, be similar to painting. So Pictorialist while trying to photography to art, but in fact is a step in the way of painting, rather than their own independence (Reading, 361). I can't help thinking of Eugene. He claims that he takes photos just to sell artists, provide them with material. It is, therefore, he doesn't have any photos of all kinds of canned emotions and point of view, on the contrary, he tries to provide the "data", and that is what led to the glory behind him, because he didn't try to into his own in the pictures may be humble or shallow feelings and ideas, and just seen his silent record, result in the camera's features, which can see far beyond the scope of his own comprehension and control, the most 4

5 precious legacy visual feast. We can in the "stuff" on the breadth of our imagination, and will not be contemporary photographers self-righteous, actually nothing new concept of nausea. Only through photography, we can realize the automatic video. But this statement is only true for traditional shooting. The value of photography existed and will exist forever, perhaps is a person holding the camera, his grip on what he taken far as well as a writer or painter. Writer or painter can be determined by their intentions works form most of the elements of the photographer can only be shot toward the appeared excited his things in that direction, and the focal length and aperture, a few indicators slightly adjusted, and then press the shutter (Richter and Schadler, 169). Before finally appeared in the photographer himself and the audience on the picture, there are too many take it that moment never noticed or something that was not on the plan, these things disturb the photographer's intentions, which reduces he thinks himself to be subjective, covered by stale ideas and absorption of heterogeneous objective thing in the world with the escape, a threat to the viewers think solid view of the world, contributing to its collapse and newborn (Ritchin, 39). This, of course, piercing experience, before long will be tired again, become a new kind of "beauty program". Fortunately, every picture taken always contains so many unexpected things. They can again and again to us out of the survival of stylized, unless we put them away because of laziness or fear. Finally, in fact, is the world and the world's filming itself is not so for our curing of object and subject (Sarvas and Frohlich, 124). Taken the world depends on the intervention of the photographer, help it to find and open their own numerous mystery, in turn, boldly, dedicated, so that access to the edge of religious abandoned self to watch and record, will see the same things to inhale the abyss of self, even to change self. In conclusions, I still believe that 360-degree no angle photography is a curse more than a blessing. The result of the technology reining makes people gradually lose the fun of taking photography as an art. It leaves no space for people to imagine and think about the beauty that is hidden behind the images. The photographer s own ability and sense of beauty can hardly be shown in his works. Therefore, 360-degree no angle photography actually takes something beautiful from our lives in spite of giving us more accuracy. 5

6 Works Cited Huysmans J. What s in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings. Security Dialogue 42(4 5): Isin EF. The neurotic citizen. Citizenship Studies 8(3): Murray S Digital images, photo-sharing, and our shifting notions of everyday aesthetics. Journal of Visual Culture 7(2): Palmer D. Emotional archives: online photo sharing and the cultivation of self. Photographies 3(2): Prensky M. Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon 9(5): Reading A. The mobile family gallery? Gender, memory and the cameraphone. Trames: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 12(3): Richter R and Schadler C. See my virtual self: dissemination as a characteristic of digital photography the example of Flickr.com. Visual Studies 24(2): Ritchin F. Photojournalism in the age of computers. In: Squiers C (ed.) The Critical Image. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, pp Rubenstein D. Cameraphone photography: the death of the camera and the arrival of visiblespeech. Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics 1: Sarvas R and Frohlich DM. From Snapshots to Social Media The Changing Picture of Domestic Photography. London: Springer

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