PanoTools:
Re: New monopod panos
Roger D. Williams 2006-May-26 03:13:58
From one Roger to another...
On Fri, 26 May 2006 07:36:01 +0900, Roger Howard
<#removed#> wrote:
> I've been quite busy lately with my other (real) career, so my
> processing is lagging - I've been stealing away to shoot fairly
> regularly, but not enough time at night for processing the stitched
> results... so I have a few hundred gigs of PSBs waiting for editing,
> flattening and conversion, including some really cool ones from the
> big immigration marches in LA last month.
>
> That said, last weekend I went down to Santa Monica for sunset to
> play with my monopod rig and PTGUI... I'm especially excited these
> days about shooting panos with my monopod in a non-vertical
> orientation - especially sticking out over dropoffs like the bluff in
> Santa Monica... having the perspective of the pano seem to be
> floating in space, with the photographer seemingly a mile away, is
> really neat.
>
> Here is an album with a few panos from that test... don't comment on
> my sloppy use of my tripod cap in these cases - traditional caps
> don't work nearly as well when the region to cover up isn't pitch=-90
> and I've not yet decided what to do about that!
>
> http://www.rogerroger.org/nodes/595
>
> My apologies in advance for the less than ideal gallery layout...
>
> Also, here's one of the panos from a different projection:
>
> http://www.rogerroger.org/image/644
I really enjoyed these. It was Erik's amazing cliffside panorama that
first showed me that this could be done although I couldn't figure out
HOW for quite a while. Now I fancy trying it myself. I see how the
difficulties with nadir are now replaced by difficulties with the
photo of YOU. I am wondering if some kind of overarm suspension (just
for the one full-frontal shot) might be viable.
The digital P&S brigade have no problems with pointing the camera at
themselves and getting a stretch of arm in the picture... maybe that
could be made acceptable. Definitely an interesting project and well
worth doing.
Roger
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