Spherical Panoramic Photography Gnomon Workshop DVD
Instructor:
Greg Downing
Formats:
Mac or PC DVD-ROM (2-Disc Set)
Duration:
5 hours of lecture.
Software Featured
Realviz Stitcher
Spherical Panoramic Photography
CGProShop Price: $69.00
A Complete Guide
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.
Topics Covered
• Equipment Overview
• Photography for Panoramas
• Calibrating Equipment
• Turning 3D Creations into Panoramas
• Avoiding & Repairing Bad Stitches
• Stitching in Realviz Stitcher Chapters: Disc One
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 Chapters: Disc two
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
Greg Downing
Greg Downing specializes in image-based 3D technologies. His photographic work has been displayed in some of the nation's most prestigious museums including: the American Museum of Natural History, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Much of Greg's technical background comes from his work in development at Realviz on ImageModeler, Stitcher and Sceneweaver. He has worked in film production as a Lighting Technical Director at Rhythm & Hues.
Greg teaches at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, has presented at professional conferences for both visual effects artists and photographers, and has been published in numerous 3D industry magazines.
Minimum System Requirements
1GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
5 GB of hard disk space
1280 x 1024 display
Minimum Operating System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2
This DVD-ROM also requires the Quicktime Movie Player (Version 5.0.5 or higher), the Ensharpen Codec (Version 1.0.1 or higher) and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents.
The web links for these installers are below. If you don't have these items on your computer, please install these items before you launch the DVD-ROM Gnomon Workshop movie.
cgCharacter
Ballistic Publishing
