When: In September 2007.

Where: At Robert's apartment, in the guest's loo, where the washing machine is standing.

Why: Robert loves to make funny panos and to shoot at unusual places or macro style panos. He shot a panorama in a fridge back in 1997 with his first Nikon CoolPix and - in 1998 - he realized a complete walkthrough of a 5 square meter model of his former office's rooms.
On a rainy afternoon in September he was shooting a panorama within a cat litter box and when he looked through the viewfinder to check the perspective, he saw the washing machine standing behind the litter box.
Eureka! it immediately came into his mind that the long planned panorama inside the washing mashine would have to be the next thing to do in the afternoon.

Close objects panoramas are evidently his passion.

click here to view inside a washing machine panorama

How, technical details: Robert used a Canon EOS 5D with the Nikkor 10.5 fisheye and the Agnos T-Ring.
It is interesting to know that he didn't use any tripod or similar construction. Among his smelly sports clothes, he placed the camera in the middle of the drum, and used a sock as leveling base.
The shots were taken with the timer, as exposure series, in order to later make dri corrections.
He shot 4 pictures at 90° each, in RAW format.
After making the final dri picts, he stitched them using PTGui.
The software couldn't find any control point, so he had to set them all by hand.
Due to the vicinity of the clothes and the difficult shape of the drum, funny stitching errors occurred, which required extensive photo retouching.

Robert Serra is a panographer and media designer for print & interactive. His company is Zeitraum. It's now 10 years that he's shooting QTVR : he participated in the early Wrinkle in Time events; realized the well known Virtual Submarine Tour,
which was featured at apple.com in 1998; worked for clients like the German television (ARD), Thyssen Krupp, Bitburger Brewery, Max Data Computers, various hotels and so on...

Links:
His newest panoramic work can be found at robertserra.com.
His corporate website Zeitraum.
The Virtual Sumbarine Tour (1998).