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I've recently seen a photo someone has done using his SLR which is of the inside of a car. If you move the mouse over the photo you can move the image so it faces any way you like from the top of the car to the bottom, even the back of the car. Not explained very well at all but I hope you get my meaning :-) What I would like to know is how would an image like this be achieved? I get that you would have to use stitching of some sort but I just found it be very impressive and wouldn't mind giving it a go sometime
 
Photoshop actually has something similar built in, although not many people are aware of it.
It's under the file/export menu zoomify, I'd suggest you search google for a few tutorials and see if thats what your after.
 
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swanseamale47 said:
Photoshop actually has something similar built in, although not many people are aware of it.
It's under the file/export menu zoomify, I'd suggest you search google for a few tutorials and see if thats what your after.
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You know what! I think youve got it bang on there! I'm doing a shoot for a friends valet service website in a couple weeks and thought shooting the inside of the car and being able to move around might be a great idea and by using zoomify I think that it will work! Thank you very much 😁
 
Moorey said:
You know what! I think youve got it bang on there! I'm doing a shoot for a friends valet service website in a couple weeks and thought shooting the inside of the car and being able to move around might be a great idea and by using zoomify I think that it will work! Thank you very much 😁
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Glad to be able to help. :)
 
Moorey said:
I'm doing a shoot for a friends valet service website in a couple weeks and thought shooting the inside of the car and being able to move around might be a great idea and by using zoomify I think that it will work!
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Make sure you practice before you commit to doing it for your friend. Doing any kind of stitched shot in a confined space is very difficult because the slightest camera movement will induce parallax errors which can destroy the stitching. You can see this easily yourself by sitting in the back seat of a car and looking at the dashboard with one eye, then the other eye. The view (and especially how much the front seats obscure your view) is quite different between the two eyes even though they're only a few cm apart. To avoid this problem you need a panoramic tripod head which will allow the camera to be rotated around the nodal point of the lens.
 
StewartR said:
Make sure you practice before you commit to doing it for your friend. Doing any kind of stitched shot in a confined space is very difficult because the slightest camera movement will induce parallax errors which can destroy the stitching. You can see this easily yourself by sitting in the back seat of a car and looking at the dashboard with one eye, then the other eye. The view (and especially how much the front seats obscure your view) is quite different between the two eyes even though they're only a few cm apart. To avoid this problem you need a panoramic tripod head which will allow the camera to be rotated around the nodal point of the lens.
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Thanks for the tip. I think that's a very good idea actually. I'll try it out on my car first I think
 
EspressoJunkie said:
Something like this might be handy

http://pointofviewcameras.co.uk/camalapse-time-lapse-mount.html

I've not used one myself, but a guy I work with uses one for video stuff.
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I think that that will only allow you to create a 360 degree single row panorama, not a full 360 x 180. The other problem with it for doing close up work is that there no adjustment to rotate the camera around the nodal point, just the tripod bush.

For the ful monty you would need something like this. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manfrotto-3...K5P0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328465222&sr=8-1

Quite a bit more expensive, although there are cheaper alternatives. You would also probably need a hed leveller to make sure the head is absolutely level.

Have a look at http://www.red-door.co.uk/index.html for more information.
 
Skyviews100 said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manfrotto-303SPH-Multi-Panoramic-Head/dp/B000JLK5P0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328465222&sr=8-1[/url]

Quite a bit more expensive, although there are cheaper alternatives. You would also probably need a hed leveller to make sure the head is absolutely level.

Have a look at http://www.red-door.co.uk/index.html for more information.
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Agreed. The Manfrotto 303, Nodal Ninja or Panosaurus would be required to do a job like this properly.
 
Skyviews100 said:
I think that that will only allow you to create a 360 degree single row panorama, not a full 360 x 180. The other problem with it for doing close up work is that there no adjustment to rotate the camera around the nodal point, just the tripod bush.

For the ful monty you would need something like this. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manfrotto-303SPH-Multi-Panoramic-Head/dp/B000JLK5P0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328465222&sr=8-1

Quite a bit more expensive, although there are cheaper alternatives. You would also probably need a hed leveller to make sure the head is absolutely level.

Have a look at http://www.red-door.co.uk/index.html for more information.
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Ok yeah I can see your point actually and yeah thats a lot more expensive lol. So how about this situation. Forget the interior of the car for a minute. How about shooting a normal landscape as a 360 x 180 panorama? If I'm using my wide angle, would it be easier to shoot it then with just a tripod as long as I overlapped each shot by a third for the stitching? Just thinking about it as I think it's a fantastic idea for shooting :-)
 
Moorey said:
Forget the interior of the car for a minute. How about shooting a normal landscape as a 360 x 180 panorama? If I'm using my wide angle, would it be easier to shoot it then with just a tripod as long as I overlapped each shot by a third for the stitching? Just thinking about it as I think it's a fantastic idea for shooting :-)
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Yes. The technical difficulty with the car interior is all to do with parallax, and with landscapes that's not really an issue. If you don't have anything in the close foreground, then you don't even need a tripod. For example these were both shot hand-held:


Panorama of Crummock Water from Low Fell, Lake District, 7 Jul 2007
Canon 350D : f=18mm : 4 photos : PTAssembler
Click on image to see large version (1750 pixels wide) in my SmugMug gallery.


Panorama of Rydal Water and Nab Scar from Loughrigg Terrace (1), Lake District, 26 Feb 2007
Canon 350D : f=18mm : 5 photos : PTAssembler
Click on image to see large version (1700 pixels wide) in my SmugMug gallery.
 
StewartR said:
Yes. The technical difficulty with the car interior is all to do with parallax, and with landscapes that's not really an issue. If you don't have anything in the close foreground, then you don't even need a tripod. For example these were both shot hand-held:

http://stewartr.smugmug.com/Photography/Panoramas/2580250_cJdnNh#!i=178088581&k=ySsYq&lb=1&s=O
Panorama of Crummock Water from Low Fell, Lake District, 7 Jul 2007
Canon 350D : f=18mm : 4 photos : PTAssembler
Click on image to see large version (1750 pixels wide) in my SmugMug gallery.

http://stewartr.smugmug.com/Photography/Panoramas/2580250_cJdnNh#!i=205201083&k=We8cA&lb=1&s=O
Panorama of Rydal Water and Nab Scar from Loughrigg Terrace (1), Lake District, 26 Feb 2007
Canon 350D : f=18mm : 5 photos : PTAssembler
Click on image to see large version (1700 pixels wide) in my SmugMug gallery.
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There fantastic! I cannot wait to try this!
 
You can get away with a tripod for long distance stuff when parrallax isnt such of a problem. I've done some from the top of the 26m mast for a moto cross track.

Remember to set the camera to manual to ensure consistent exposure and to lock the white balance as well. If you don't it wil cause difficulties when stiching. SOmeeven say use manual focus as well, but with long distance stuff I havent found this a problem.

If you use micrsoft ICE, you can shoot a panoramic video and import this and it will create a panaromic still for you. Not fantastically high res, but good enough for web use.

Have fun
 
Skyviews100 said:
You can get away with a tripod for long distance stuff when parrallax isnt such of a problem. I've done some from the top of the 26m mast for a moto cross track.

Remember to set the camera to manual to ensure consistent exposure and to lock the white balance as well. If you don't it wil cause difficulties when stiching. SOmeeven say use manual focus as well, but with long distance stuff I havent found this a problem.

If you use micrsoft ICE, you can shoot a panoramic video and import this and it will create a panaromic still for you. Not fantastically high res, but good enough for web use.

Have fun
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Thanks man appreciate it :-)
 
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