The Gnomon Workshop – Spherical Panoramic Photography

Introducing panoramic photography for digital set building, photographer Greg Downing walks you through a step-by-step-process of creating high-resolution omni-directional panoramas. This highly detailed description starts with an equipment survey, revealing all relevant photography instructions and demonstrations. Using a normal film or digital camera with Realviz Stitcher, Greg provides a complete guide to image stitching, culminating in some some exciting ways to use your panoramas for 3D, visual effects, print or the web.

Equipment Overview

Photography for Panoramas

Calibrating Equipment

Turning 3D Creations into Panoramas

Avoiding & Repairing Bad Stitches

Stitching in Realviz Stitcher

DVD1

01. Introduction / Eagle Rock

02. Equipment Overview

03. Removing Paralax from Pan and Tilt

04. How Many Photos?

05. Shooting a Panorama

06. Processing your Images Before Stitching

07. Importing Images

08. Calibration

09. Moving images

10. Stitching and Working Around Problems

11. Closing the Panorama

12. Tilted Rows and Caps

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DVD2

01. Stencil Tool

02. Repairing Light Fall Off for Skies

03. Defining the Horizon

04. Rendering Options

05. Rendering for QuickTime

06. Additional Rendering Formats

07. Custom Photoshop Layers

08. Changing Projections

09. SPi-V

10. Removing Lens Flare

11. Linear Movies from Panoramas

12. Panorams from 3D Scenes

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