At 10:45 PM 1/28/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Impressive Denton. Very impressive. Can you summarize the photographic
>method or technique on how you did those?
>
Thanks.
You set a simple camera vertically on a tripod with a head that's marked in
degrees. You attach a wide-angle lens at least 28mm. You take a series of
images in a circle, every so many degrees apart. You should meter first and
select a single manual exposure.
The number of images is determined by the width of the lens. The wider the
lens, the fewer shots need to be stitched. The ultimate is the 8mm fisheye,
which only requires 2-3. However I have found the ultrawides do not quite
give the same distortion-free stitch as the more moderate wides. But the
wider the lens, the greater the vertical perspective. Theoretically, with a
180deg fisheye you can look all the way up to the sky and down to the
tripod legs <G>
You scan the images, sharpen them, clean them up, and size them so they all
have the same resolution. When you save them, you number them 01, 02, etc.
Then you open them all up in PhotoVista and stitch them. About 750f the
time, they stitch fine the first time around. Sometimes, a little manual
intervention is required. That's it!
Regards,
Denton Taylor
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