pricelist

panography	<18MP		>18MP
	LDR	HDR	LDR	HDR
Panorama - 360°x180°*	40EUR	50EUR	50EUR +	100EUR +
Panorama - partial	30EUR	40EUR	40EUR +	70EUR +

* I offer a program for viewing panoramas, the panorama itself in Flash/Quicktime, and help with embedding it in your website for free with your purchase, just ask!

photography	LDR	HDR
20 photo set*	40EUR	50EUR
50 photo set*	80EUR	110EUR

* Photos are provided on CD in the format of your choice. If you would like printouts, please read below and contact me.

When ordering a panorama or a set of photographs, you pay for the service. I go on location, shoot the subject, develop the photographs and panoramas, and then the finished work in whichever format you want (typically PNG, TIFF or JPG) gets burned on a CD/DVD and posted to you, or delivered personally, depending on our prior arrangement. When ordering a 360°x180° panorama, I can send you just the flat images themselves (typically in an equirectangular projection, for other projections contact me), or I can also throw in the panorama in a Flash or Quicktime format that you can easily embed in your website (the same way as I have it on mine). I can also throw in a program for viewing it in high quality offline, all for free!

The price for a printout is a separate subject since many things influence the cost - paper type, size, quality and thickness. I work with a professional printing company and it is their job to make a high quality printout so that you will be satisfied with your print for a very long time. If you would like a printout, please contact me.

The prices of digital panoramas are based on several factors, namely:

• The size of the end panorama - the size of digital photos is called their resolution and is measured in units called pixels. A million pixels is a megapixel [MP]. Cameras built in 2007 typically take photos of around 14MP. The more megapixels, the better (NOT always, but assuming we are talking about high-end digital cameras and expensive lenses then yes). High resolution photographs are able to contain more details, which means that a high resolution image printed on canvas of a specific size will have more detail and be sharper than a low resolution image printed on the same sized canvas. Great! But there is a down side - higher resolution digital photos are more difficult and time-consuming to create, that is why the cost of these panoramas is greater.
  
  In order to display a panorama on screen or to print it on an A3 sized paper, a resolution of 18MP or less will do. If you would like to print on a larger sized canvas or to retain maximum quality, then you want to go for over 18MP.
• Dynamic range - the difference between the lightest and darkest point of a photographed scene. In order to see the most details in the panorama, in very bright places as well as in very dark ones, the dynamic range captured must cover that of the scene. Typically cameras do not cover the whole dynamic range of a scene, even more so on a sunny day. The stronger the light, the greater the contrasts, and so the higher the dynamic range of the scene. Photos covering a low dynamic range can be called LDR, and those covering a high dynamic range - HDR.
  
  If you would like to see a lovely dark blue sky and clouds on a sunny day as well as details in areas that lie in deep shade, then you want a high dynamic range panorama. In order to do this, I have to take several times more photos than I normally would. Creating a HDR panorama requires more powerful equipment and a lot more work, which consumes a lot more time than working with LDR, that is why the prices for these shots are higher, but once it's done you can view it as you would a normal digital photo, no need for powerful equipment for viewing!
  
  Note that I simplified this subject a little as it is a bit more complicated than that, and the end panorama that I offer is not in itself a HDR shot (although I can offer a true HDR version as well, if you want) because that would require that you have special software and powerful equipment to view it. In order to make viewing this panorama easy for everyone, I convert the HDR panorama into a LDR shot that preserves all detail but takes less memory and is viewable with any program you would normally use.