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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
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Chapters: Disk One
- Introduction / Eagle Rock
- Equipment Overview
- Removing Paralax from Pan and Tilt
- How Many Photos?
- Shooting a Panorama
- Processing your Images Before Stitching
- Importing Images
- Calibration
- Moving images
- Stitching and Working Around Problems
- Closing the Panorama
- Tilted Rows and Caps
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Chapters: Disk Two
- Stencil Tool
- Repairing Light Fall Off for Skies
- Defining the Horizon
- Rendering Options
- Rendering for QuickTime
- Additional Rendering Formats
- Custom Photoshop Layers
- Changing Projections
- SPi-V
- Removing Lens Flare
- Linear Movies from Panoramas
- Panorams from 3D Scenes
- Product Code: GDO01
- ISBN: 1-59762-990-1
- UPC: 805366010737
- Duration: 300 minutes
- Formats: DVD-ROM
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Greg Downing
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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.
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"Greg Downing's work with photogrammetry and high dynamic range imaging has helped light the way for CG artists around the world to take advantage of these photoreal image creation technologies ."
- Paul Debevec
Executive Producer
Research Assistant Professor
ICT Graphics Lab
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