Panoramic Virtual Tours

Click here for an example of a panoramic tour

The phrases panoramic tour and virtual tour are often used to describe a variety of video and photographic based media. Essentially, the word panorama indicates an unbroken view (see the definition on the first page of this virtual tour guide), so essentially, a panorama in that respect could be either a series of photographs or panning video footage. However, of late the phrase panoramic tours has mostly been associated with stills photography and it is from here that Panoviewing is derived (see 'about pv' for more information on panoviewing.co.uk).

One of the early 'panographers' was Bradford's David Hockney. Between the years of 1982 and 1987, David Hockney experimented heavily with photocollage, creating works he calls joiners.

A joiner consists of a series of photographs taken from different viewpoints, arranged (overlapping) to form a single piece. By taking the pictures from carefully selected viewpoints, and arranging them in the right way.

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