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Re: New to WWP and Flash question
minnesota360 2007-Mar-23 07:17:00
Hiya...I am probably not the best source of info here as I am moving
into a new area of the business by upgrading my equipment and
technique and learning stuff every day.
If you are asking for virtual tours by realtors, they would expect
you to snap some still images and shoot some panoramas of the
property and arrange them on a web page suitable for the more
limited MLS version and then a more full-fledged version for
realtor.com and wherever else they might want to use it. Some
people can make money at it, others like me seem to take too much
time at it to make a $. You need to either partner with a company
that can take your images and make the web pages or do it all
yourself and save yourself their fee.
If you are serious about this and need more pointers, just ask.
Lew
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> Hello Lew, I can not help you, but maybe you can help me. I get
the pano
> email all the time, sometimes 20 in one day. I wanted to learn
about this
> type of photography, but I was being flooded with all these
emails, and I
> was learning the equipment that I have, I have only taken one pano
shot, and
> I am not sure, it is a real pano. I have a D70, D70s, and a D200,
with a
> second D200 on the way. I have retired from my real job, and
making it
> through prostate cancer, to enjoy life, and become a professional
> photographer. When you get a chance, can you email me and give me
some tips
> on how all this works, thanks. Oh yes I have a 10.5 fisheye, but
I am not
> sure, how to used it?
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> Hello...my name is Lew and I operate 360 Minnesota, a virtual tour
> business. I started and still use a 360 degree lens with a Nikon
> 8700. I also have the fisheye for the 8700 and I also shoot a
Nikon
> D70 with the kit 18-70 lens. When I get the funds, I will buy the
> 10.5. I use a Kaidan Quickpan Pro with a landscape bracket for the
> 8700/FE and a spherical bracket for the D70, however I just got it
> recently and haven't actually used the spherical bracket yet.
>
> My question is with the 8700/FE combination. A local VT
photographer
> advertises that he shoots his panoramas with a flash. I am
wondering
> if there is an effective and practical way to use one or two
flashes
> to help light inside areas. A person on another list who shoots
> panaoramas had his house shot by a VT shooter who used a Nikon 990
> with two flashes mounted on it. From the flash marks on the
woodwork
> it appears they were front firing. I would like to avoid the front
> firing method to eliminate that problem if possible. I have
thought
> about a single flash mounted on the camera firing straight back
into a
> reflector that I could mount on a stand or handhold when firing
the
> shots? At least I could use a white or silver reflector and keep
the
> light white vs. bouncing off the opposite wall and/or ceiling?
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> I am trying to obtain the highest quality of image with the least
> labor. At the price point realtors are willing to pay you can't
> justify any extra post-processing work but I am compelled to do
> something. With my 360 lens images, I generally shoot five and
blend
> with Photomatix. I don't want to have to do that with five sets of
> three fisheye images however, thinking that making a single set of
> images lit with flash somehow could provide a proper picture.
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> Any help on using flash?
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> Thanks,
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> Lew
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