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02/21/2004 12:07:45 PM · #1 |
hi.
i'm interested in covering all four walls in a room with a city view. i don't know if i am making myself clear, but it is sort of like the commercial where the girl goes to paris and takes a bunch of pictures and then has them glued on the her walls and create a 360 degree panorama which is the view from the eiffel tower. clear? anyway, i was wondering if anyone has done this or if it's even possible. it looks pretty cool and i'm willing to take the time and take the photos, but i wonder if there's a printing company that would actually do something like this. once again, thanks in advance.
june
Message edited by author 2004-02-21 12:08:41.
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02/21/2004 02:34:19 PM · #2 |
Hi June,
When I saw that commercial, I had to laugh, the way she does it is so highly unlikely to succeed.
However, I too started thinking about the possibilities, and here is my take on it:
- You'll need to shoot portrait, on a carefully-levelled tripod
- You may neeed to shoot two rows of images
- I would strongly suggest shooting at 50mm (equivalent) or longer, it will minimize distortion and also result in much higher levels of detail in the final photos
- Lock exposure and focus, use a remote if possible.
Now for creating the mural you have two choices, either a continuous, or interrupted set of panels. the continuous panel will be much more time-consuming.
- If you are doing continuous, overlap 20% horizontally (and vertically if shooting a second row)
- If doing interrupted (spaces between panels) then shoot with 0% overlap, as closely as possible.
- If doing continuous, I would stitch the entire panorama, then break it apart later for printing.
- If doing separate panels with small gaps, just print each separately and space as needed to provide proper alignment of visual cues.
You can get prints as large as 44x60 at some online printers. You are tlaking about $100 per panel, so it coule get quite expensive, but then again, if you are redoing a whole room, it's not that great an expenditure, given it's pretty much the entire decorating theme of the room.
I think it's a neat idea, and done well could be awesone.
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02/21/2004 07:11:10 PM · #3 |
You could live here!
Message edited by author 2004-02-21 19:11:22. |
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02/21/2004 07:21:26 PM · #4 |
These days you can get auto panorama software that allows you to take shots, layering some parts for successive shots & then the program puts it together for you. For example, My Olympus came with software that allows me to take 10 shots that they will then stitch together to make a panorama shot.
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02/21/2004 07:24:28 PM · #5 |
@Gordon:
Ah yes, one fine panorama. June would need the other 180 degrees though!
BTW, what is the original dimensions of that panorama (Xpx x Ypx)?
Another though just came to me, if one were to sit in the center of a square room, the x-axis of the printed/hung photos would lok "compressed" near the corners. One could compensate by applying a "remap" in x-axis only, say, with PanoTools, then it would look right from the center point, but not from anywhere else.
Conclusion: Interesting concept, really needs a round room, LOL.
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02/21/2004 07:28:27 PM · #6 |
You might get some ideas from the Max Lyons website, Gigapixel Images, below. He did Brice Canyon in Utah - and a whole lot of other stuff and has some software to help others do it too.
//www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm |
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02/21/2004 07:28:47 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Rooster:
These days you can get auto panorama software that allows you to take shots, layering some parts for successive shots & then the program puts it together for you. For example, My Olympus came with software that allows me to take 10 shots that they will then stitch together to make a panorama shot. |
True that. The results are often not that great if the intent is a seamless pano however. It really takes work to make it look like Gordon's. Here are some of mine, though none of them are even 180°. All processed in PanoTools/PTGUI with one exception done in Panorama Factory.
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02/21/2004 07:30:23 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
@Gordon:
Ah yes, one fine panorama. June would need the other 180 degrees though!
BTW, what is the original dimensions of that panorama (Xpx x Ypx)?
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I think it is actually about 300 degrees - I was too drunk when I shot it too get the building 'behind' me in good focus. You need to put the door somewhere, anyway!
I seem to be drunk for all of my night time travel photography, come to think of it.
It was a 1969 pixels in height, 12,000 pixels wide, in a 70Mb TIFF file. |
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02/21/2004 07:35:24 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
...I seem to be drunk for all of my night time travel photography, come to think of it... |
You do damn fine work when intoxicated, LOL. I think I need to try that once in a (great) while.
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02/22/2004 02:47:50 PM · #10 |
Well, thanks for all the replies. It's definitely not gonna be a weekend project, but once I have time (and money) and do some more homework i'm definitely gonna try it.
June
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02/22/2004 03:11:08 PM · #11 |
Absolutely gorgeous! The only improvement I can imagine would be to have a dpc'er's POD on the Kodak marquis!
Originally posted by Gordon:
I think it is actually about 300 degrees - I was too drunk when I shot it too get the building 'behind' me in good focus. You need to put the door somewhere, anyway!
I seem to be drunk for all of my night time travel photography, come to think of it.
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02/22/2004 04:43:22 PM · #12 |
I have been thinking about this for a while.
The cost is a bit steep though.
Now I have this idea of just doing one wall for starters. I have found a digital printing service that prices the square meter at around $100.
Now I just have to find the perfect photo, most likly it will be a landscape or a forest clearing.
I would realy like to know if anyone has done something like this....
There are some links out there from companies that specialize in this kind of crazy ideas:
Facedisplays
icl-imaging
Mepro
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