Very Cool Website (Really)

[Gdad]

I would love to know how this guy does this. What amazes me is you never see a trace of the photographer- not even a footprint.

http://pano.1drey.com/all_moscow.html
(Files take a bit to load)

Maybe someone can explain how he did this (http://pano.1drey.com/panos/moscow/streets/nikitskaya2.html) in full sun without a shadow.

I think one of you DIS'rs needs to learn this and do some Disney 360" pano's so I can look at them. ::yes::

[jonslola]

That is very neat!

[tinksdad]

Those are soo Cool!! I've seen a couple of others done similarly. Would love to try it someday.

[MICKEY88]

I would love to know how this guy does this. What amazes me is you never see a trace of the photographer- not even a footprint.

http://pano.1drey.com/all_moscow.html
(Files take a bit to load)

Maybe someone can explain how he did this (http://pano.1drey.com/panos/moscow/streets/nikitskaya2.html) in full sun without a shadow.

I think one of you DIS'rs needs to learn this and do some Disney 360" pano's so I can look at them. ::yes::


he shot high enough to avoid his own shadow..

[Gdad]

he shot high enough to avoid his own shadow..

Not sure what you mean- you can scroll around and look straight down.

[MICKEY88]

Not sure what you mean- you can scroll around and look straight down.

sorry didn't realize you could look down,, I'm guessing it's software trick that pieces it all together and in reality the center is missing, if you were truely looking straight down, yu'd see the photographers feet..???

[photo_chick]

DH has done stuff like this for sites. He did David Copperfield's museum when he did that site way back in 1999, when you could not get them to look this good (he used Quicktime VR). Too bad it is not online anymore, it was pretty cool!

[polkadotladybug]

Very cool!

If you look down and look very closely - you can see what looks kinda like a short branch along the long shadow. If you look at the brick pattern, you can see where the bricks overlap and aren't evenly spaced - that's about the only hint that I can see! he may have used photo-editing software and cloned the sidewalk brick patterns and went back over his shadow too.

[Anewman]

sorry didn't realize you could look down,, I'm guessing it's software trick that pieces it all together and in reality the center is missing, if you were truely looking straight down, yu'd see the photographers feet..???


Take multiple pictures straight down while placing feet in different locations, you then arrange them to present an image without feet.

[MICKEY88]

Take multiple pictures straight down while placing feet in different locations, you then arrange them to present an image without feet.


it would be much easier to clone them out if that was your intent..

[Anewman]

it would be much easier to clone them out if that was your intent..

IYO
Just like everything in Photography in general and photoshop, there is more than one way to skin a cat.

But the point is that the camera could indeed be "truely looking straight down".

[MICKEY88]

IYO
Just like everything in Photography in general and photoshop, there is more than one way to skin a cat.

But the point is that the camera could indeed be "truely looking straight down".


definitely more than one way to skin a cat, but honestly, you can't possibly disagree that cloning would be the fasted and easiest way to do that job..

[Anewman]

definitely more than one way to skin a cat, but honestly, you can't possibly disagree that cloning would be the fasted and easiest way to do that job..

If fastest and easiest is your goal...

But seriously you are already merging all these shots, why not merge a few extra exposures, keep them as layers and erase the feet?

I use the merge and erase on baseball pictures to give a multiple exposure type effect, I guess I am just really fast with this method.