Spherical panoramic photography /

Introduces panoramic photography for digital set building. Takes the viewer through a step-by-step process for creating high resolution omni-directional panoramas. Shows how to use a normal film or digital camera with RealViz Stitcher for image stitching, and the various ways to use one's pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Downing, Greg
Corporate Author:	Gnomon Workshop (Firm)
Format:	Software eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hollywood, CA : Gnomon Workshop, [2004]
Series:	Creating compelling environments with Greg Downing.
Subjects:	Image processing > Digital techniques. Photography > Digital techniques. RealViz Stitcher. Computer animation. Three-dimensional display systems. Computer graphics. Instructional films.

Table of Contents:

Contents of disc 1: lecture 1. Introduction / Eagle Rock
lecture 2. Equipment overview
lecture 3. Removing paralax from pan and tilt
lecture 4. How many photos?
lecture 5. Shooting a panorama
lecture 6. Processing your images before stitching
lecture 7. Importing images
lecture 8. Calibration
lecture 9. Moving images
lecture 10. Stitching and working around problems
lecture 11. Closing the panorama
lecture 12. Tilted rows and caps.
Contents of disc 2: lecture 1. Stencil tool
lecture 2. Repairing light fall off for skies
lecture 3. Defining the horizon
lecture 4. Rendering options
lecture 5. Rendering for QuickTime
lecture 6. Additonal rendering formats
lecture 7. Custom Photoshop layers
lecture 8. Changing projections
lecture 9. SPi-V
lecture 10. Removing lens flare
lecture 11. Linear movies from panoramas
lecture 12. Panorams from 3D scenes.