Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A Deadman 360
From: Per Claesson <per@visimedia.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:14:46 +0100

Cool! How do you do that? You must take the sequence of shots real 
fast, else people would move and you may not be able to join the images 
at certain places, or...?

Per

torsdagen den 31 oktober 2002 kl 02.31 skrev John Brownlow:

> (This didn't seem to make it to the list the first time so I'm 
> reposting.
> It's another of my 360 images for those of you who enjoy them)
>
>
> Unlurking for a moment...
>
> Now things have calmed down (see today's Daily Mail for the reason...)
> a bit I finally got a chance to put together a 360 from July. I shot it
> at Ed Mirvish's annual birthday party here in Toronto. Normally this is
> a lot of fun but (see the portfolios from the previous 2 years on my
> site) but it felt quite threatening this year and this was certainly
> reflected in what I shot.
>
> Here's the first pic I've put together from it.
>
> 1000 pixel version
> (90k):        http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/misc/mirvish-4-1000.jpg
> 2000 pixel version
> (197k):    http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/misc/mirvish-4-2000.jpg
> 4000 pixel version
> (608k):    http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/misc/mirvish-4-4000.jpg
>
> If you can stomach the download, the 4000 pixel version is the coolest,
> but even this doesn't capture the level of detail in the 12000 pixel
> wide original.
>
> This was comped together from a selection of 14 images out of a total
> of about 30 I shot in this location.
>
> The more I do these the more I am struck with how similar the process
> of putting them together is to film editing, especially in the sense of
> constructing meaning through juxtaposition, and in the delicate
> house-of-cards nature of making it all fit together, which often means
> you have to sacrifice the best individual shots for the sake of the
> whole.
>
> As usual the pano wraps around at both ends and you are welcome to load
> it up into photoshop and use the filter>other>offset command to
> experiment with alternative framings.
>
> Tech: Nikon 5000 w/ WA adapter and cable release, Kaidan Kiwi head on a
> monopod.
>
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