Re: Top of Building

[Megan Rhodes <megan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I read about a photographer in Chicago who did exactly what you're about
to try.  Out of 120 images shot on top of the building, he only used 18.
Something to think about.

Cheers,
Megan

"William G. Lea" wrote:

> Ops I did it again! Crashed my hard disk while trying to post reply's.
> Lost
> everything.
>
> I tried to post a reply to Bruce but it hasn't shown up.
>
> It seems clear my first post wasn't understood. Any one commenting on
> the first post please either repost or e-mail me.
>
> In any event, what I propose is to try an emulate a roundshot type
> camera moving on tracks by shooting many frames and moving the tripod
> incrementally as the frames are shot.  The corners of the building are
> turned using a pan-head in the conventional manner.  Shoot and stitch
> say
> 50-60 images.  Actually just calc the FOV and figure the lateral
> movement required to provide lap at the desired image distance.
>
> Narrow fields of view minimize distortion. I'd shoot the camera on its
> side to maximize vertical field of view.  If that doesn't give you
> enough then angle the lens and try and take out the angle effect with
> Ptools. Lot of work but nothing is easy.
>
> If the snow melts I might get around to trying it this weekend but it
> will take me a week to get the film processed and scanned in so I can
> play....