shooting for papervision
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- Buckyball2
We're trying to photograph a park to put on 4 sides of a papervision cube. an in the round type experience.
my knowledge is limited. so i'm trying to figure out how we need to shoot this.
Is it as simple as shooting 4/90 degree shots? My guess is no because of lens distortion at the edge of the pic. doesn't Photoshop have tools to correct that now?
Or, do we need to shoot it more in a QTVR style and then stitch it in post to make 4 shots?
has anyone has experience with this? If so, could use some help.
thanks
- quamb0
Depending on what camera, try and shoot on a normal lens to avoid distortion and make things easier to stitch up later. ie no zoom or wide, on a 35mm film camera this is 50mm.
That should do it for 4 sides - simple 360 horizontal stitch-together, probably made up of more then 4 photos though. Unless read your question wrong.
- Buckyball20
thanks quamb. how many shots do you think that would take overall to get 4 final sides? guesstimates okay.
- skelly_b0
probably eight, every 45 degrees. The Auto-Align and Auto-Blend features in Photoshop CS3 make the stitching easy.
- sikma0
ignore me if any of this seems obvious
1. make sure your camera is perfectly level with the ground to avoid lens distortion
2. shoot with manual white balance and exposure.
3. chances are that you will need to shoot this in a QTVR fashion and then render your project in a "cubical" mode and use the 4 cube sides.
- danthon0
once you have a QTVR or stitched pan, there is a app (for mac) called cubic converter that will convert to cube sides
- inhaler970
Hire me to do it :D
- Court0
I'd be cool to take a screencast of your work you never know who might get inspired by it and do the same it sounds like a cool idea man.
Cant wait to see it maybe you could email me a link if i dont check QBN that day