Vancouver Photography

[Delirium]

a couple more neat ones

[squeezied]

last pic... shiiiiiiiiiiittttttttt that's so awesome!

[Lyle]

^ yeah looks wild. But is it a stitch with two shots, one in daylight the other dusk?

[raggedy13]

That last one was sweet. It looks to me like there are more than 2 times of day stitched together there. It looks like there are about 5 or 6 different times there.

I got a few pics at lunch yesterday but they were mostly construction so they weren't anything too great. I only got one non-construction pic so here it is along with a couple construction ones.

[SFUVancouver]

Some Vancouver Projects – All photos taken by me.


Coast Hotel excavation progress – August 8th


A big concrete pour at the Fairmont Pacific Rim – August 8th


Flatiron construction – August 8th


West Pender “construction precinct” – August 8th


Hotel Loden now has a small spire that references the Melville’s “sail” – August 8th


Jameson House demolition progress – August 8th


Ritz-Carlton demolition progress – August 8th


Shangri-La is starting to nicely fill in downtown views – August 8th


Shangri-La northwest elevation – August 8th


Shangri-La southeast elevation – August 8th


Shangri-La southwest elevation – August 8th


Fearless Shangri-La construction workers earning their pay – August 8th


VCCEP construction – August 8th

Some Burnaby Projects – All photos taken by me.


A new crane going up at Brentwood Gate – August 8th


Slow progress on the tower at Brentwood Gate – August 8th


Citi and Motif excavation progress – August 8th


Legacy progress – August 8th

[SFUVancouver]

I took my first panorama today of SEFC. I stitched it together by hand in photoshop and it doesn't line up entirely. For those who are more knowledgeable at photoshop, is there a way to automate the process?

Anyway, here it is. This view is going to change so much in the coming years. Amazing to know it is a before picture.




A close up of Concord Pacific's Coopers Quay precinct.


Foundry in SEFC.


The Olympic Village.


Urban volleyball.


Tandem in Burnaby. In my opinion this is how you take an suburban street and make it a successful urban streetscape.


I was wandering through the new "wetland" area of the Tandem development when a heron awkwardly landed in the water in front of me. Startled, I snapped off a single shot that is actually the best animal photograph I've ever taken.


An amazing brutalist relic at the entrance to Lougheed Village.


Silhouette construction progress.


Cora II construction progress.

* photos by me on August 13th

Originally Posted by raggedy13

Out of curiosity, how did you get it to look like you're hovering 10 ft away from the bridge? Long arms?.

There is a stairwell at that point of the Cambie Street Bridge and I took pictures from that. Long arms don't hurt either.

[deasine]

That looks very nice. I don't think there is any feature like that in photoshop, but I'm not an expert with it so I can't give u a confirm answer. But many cameras these days have a panorama feature built in. Does yours?

[raggedy13]

Great pano! Thanks for going to the effort of manually putting that together (I can't help you with photoshop either, sorry).

Out of curiosity, how did you get it to look like you're hovering 10 ft away from the bridge? Long arms?

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Anyway, here it is. Is this view ever going to change in the coming years?

Based on the number of cranes south of False Creek alone I'd say that view should change quite a bit, not to mention there will be the addition of the Olympic Village and the whole surrounding SEFC neighbourhood.

By the way, you should post that in the construction thread in the Canada section as it definitely shows some construction (plus it's just a cool pano).

[SFUVancouver]

Thanks to Deez in the Canada forum for the tip of using Autostitch to piece together the pano automatically.


(Revised august 13th SEFC panorama taken by SFUVancouver/Vancouverite using a Panasonic Lumix TZ2. I used autostitch for the panorama compiling)

[officedweller]

I liked the first version better.
My Olympus does the same autostitch and I don't like the curvature at the top and bottom of the images.

[Delirium]

SFU, try this. it's a free download of a program called "Panorama Maker 3".
http://www.freefunfiles.com/software/graphics/illustration/panorama-maker-3.html
it's super easy to use. i made this on my second try;

[squeezied]

some shots of shangri-la i took this afternoon. progress is now 41/59 or 43/61





i think they're gonna put dark blue glass here if im correct












this is on the opposite side of shangri-la on thurlow. and i've saved u the trouble of typing in the site ---> www.vancouversturn.com


two harbour green

[officedweller]

Thanks!

That's a new banner on the corner of Shangri-La, too?

Looks like 2HG has topped out?

[squeezied]

Originally Posted by officedweller

That's a new banner on the corner of Shangri-La, too?

yep, on both thurlow/georgia and thurlow/alberni

[officedweller]

You should post these in the construction thread too.

[squeezied]

the van construction thread is sorta going through the ritz-carlton hype rite now, dunno if i should stick shangri-la photos at the moment. i think posting at this thread shall suffice

[robertR]

Some new (although quite old) Vancouver photos were posted in the Polish forum http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=14877879#post14877879

[jlousa]

^^ those pics in the other thread are incredible. Someone should ask the person to post them here as well, I'm also curious as to what the feedback in that thread is all about. Can anyone translate?

[robertR]

I asked the author, who is from Vancouver, why he posted photos from October. I also asked why the city looks so empty in the pictures, if he took them during Thanksgiving. I also said I was jealous! The person after me commented on how he is fascinated by the unique Scandinavian atmosphere of the city.

[SpongeG]

its all red x's