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Re: [OM] Advice on shoot, s'il te plait

Subject: Re: [OM] Advice on shoot, s'il te plait
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:30:07 -0500
Everything I've seen for suggestions sounds to me too complicated to 
carry it off without lots of time and equipment. I don't think you want 
to be that old master who spends a week planning and setting up and then 
takes on exposure. :-)  The flash problem sounds extremely difficult to 
me.  A single light has too much fall-off and multiple (out of view) 
lights will cause shadows (seatbacks and arms projected on the ceiling, 
for example).  I don't believe I could solve it in any practical manner.

For lighting I would try to keep it simple by
1) choosing early morning or late afternoon light or light overcast that 
is already subdued and doesn't have extreme brightness ranges... but 
interior lights probably turned on (or off, shoot both ways).
2) skip the flashes and use available light.  Shoot far to the right 
and, while adjusting exposure downward, use the higher shadow brightness 
of the original to help fill the shadows.  With the excellent dynamic 
range of your Nikon maybe you can do this with one shot.  But take a 
couple more at different exposures in case you need to use 
multi-exposure HDR techniques.

Interior panoramas are probably fraught with difficulty unless shot with 
a real panorama head.  The landscape panos we shoot work OK hand held 
because they typically don't have nearby objects to point out the 
parallax errors of shooting without a panohead.  Inside an aircraft you 
will always have close objects (like the seats in front of you) that 
will be sure to show parallax errors unless used on a panohead with the 
lens's rotation point set at the no parallax error position.

It's cheaper to rent a lens for 5 days from lensrentals.com
<https://www.lensrentals.com/rent/nikon/lenses/wide-angle>
than it is to buy a basic pano head such as (a few inexpensive multi-row 
ones I've looked at over the years but never bought)
<http://www.stereoscopy.com/jasper/panorama.html>
<http://gregwired.com/pano/Pano.htm>
The specific package below from Really Right Stuff is single row only 
but that's all you'd need, especially if you shoot vertically.
<http://reallyrightstuff.com/ProductDesc.aspx?code=Pano-Elem-Pkg&type=3&eq=&desc=Pano-Elements-Package%3a-For-single-row&key=it>

I've never seen one in the flesh but the Jasper Engineering model 
strikes me as the best built for the price.  Looks very sturdy for 
single row which is the most likely use.

Chuck Norcutt




On 2/15/2013 10:46 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I think I'm making more of it than it will turn out to be. The pilot
> is looking for web images, and I think I can give him what he wants.
> He's not interested in actually selling aircraft, so it's the service
> he's promoting. The interiors should look good, but the pilot should
> look better.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> I'm going to crawl out on a wing here, but I would think that if
>> you can't make do with a 24mm on FF, then you might want to take
>> up knitting. You'll not be wasting anything in cropping, though. If
>> need be, do a three-frame stitch with the camera oriented
>> vertically.
>>
>> Or do what makes most sense to me. Use this as an excuse to buy
>> that new super-wide. :)
>
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