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Re: Don's essay on ELEVATION --> panorama from a large tower
Pierre MEINDRE 2008-Jun-09 10:06:00
The result will not be perfect as parallax errors will be magnified by the size
of the building.
Try to take overlapping pictures from the four corners and, if possible, from
the middle of each sides. Be prepared to difficult stitching!
Here is a view I've taken from the Smith tower in Seattle. I was only possible
to shoot from the corners and with a lot of patient photo-editing I was able to
have this far from perfect result:
http://www.stereoscopie.fr/php/panoApplet.php?site=Voyages/NorthAmerica/...
(you may need to stitch back the above long URL! Java enabled computer needed)
Circular towers are easier! In the Space Needle (Seattle), I've taken a shot
every 5 or six windows
http://www.stereoscopie.fr/php/panoApplet.php?site=Voyages/NorthAmerica/...
The Coit Tower in San Francisco was even easier with its polygonal shape: I've
press the camera lens on each window (to avoid reflexion) to take a picture and
the stitching went smoothly:
http://www.stereoscopie.fr/php/panoApplet.php?site=Voyages/NorthAmerica/...
All pictures taken hand-held with a Sony V3 compact camera + wide-angle
converter.
Pierre Meindre (France).
Selon Briar <#removed#>:
> Any ideas for shooting a pan from a large tower when you cannot set up at
> the centre point? You would have to shoot from (x??) locations around a
> circle looking outwards, then how could you set up a stitching programme to
> put them together?
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> Thanks for any ideas!!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: #removed# [mailto:#removed#] On Behalf Of Nick
> Sent: Monday, 9 June 2008 2:45 p.m.
> To: #removed#
> Subject: Re: Don's essay on ELEVATION
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> Hi Don & Markus
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> Thanks for your insperation for the next event, I would love to be
> able to shoot a skydive panorama, but I've only done six solo jumps so
> far, then I would have to come up with a way to shoot it. So I will go
> with the conventional elevation, there are a number of locations
> around Melbourne including my two "Best of" 2005 & 2006, I won't use
> those locations. I could go with Mt Dandenong, Mt Macedon, the Rialto
> tower or the Eureka tower.
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> I hope to see many great entries to the next event.
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> Nick Milligan.
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> --- In #removed# <mailto:wwp%40yahoogroups.com> com, "G. Donald Bain"
> <dbain@...> wrote:
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> > About Themes
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> >
> > Bungee jumping and BASE jumping - losing elevation, fast. Perhaps the
> > ultimate exploitation of elevation for raw adrenaline-pumping thrills
> > is in Las Vegas. There is a roller coaster on the roof of the
> > Stratosphere Tower - and a bungee jump even above that, a thousand
> > feet above the Strip.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> > Don
> >
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