The Casino Star Theatre in Gunnison, Utah turned 100 years old on 13 January 2013. This may be the best-preserved small-town theater in Utah, and they’re still showing movies. The lobby and auditorium are just beautiful and the façade has been mostly restored.
On 19 January 2013, I spent three hours touring the Casino Star. Diana Spencer, with the Casino Star Theatre Foundation, took me from the basement to the upstairs rooms, explaining the theater’s history and showing me some of its relics from days gone by.
During my three hours in the theater, I took five panoramas and 237 photos. I spent 15 hours over the next week sorting through the photos and selecting those to use on my utahtheaters.info web site. I added 14 photo pages to accommodate them. As is typical on these photos trips, once I got home and started looking over the photos, I found things that I could have done better. I will have to go back.
These are the first panoramas I’ve made with my new Panosaurus panorama head.
This piece of equipment keeps the focal point of my fisheye lens over the exact center of my tripod as I take the several photos that later get blended together to form the panorama. With my old camera, a Nikon Coolpix 4500, I built my own panorama head using inexpensive parts from the hardware store. I spent several hours on each panorama, manually blending the images together so the seams would not be visible. With the new panorama head, camera (a Sony Nex-5N), and PTGui Pro panorama software, I was able to complete my five panoramas of the Casino Star in just three hours.
See all the photos of the Casino Star Theatre.