Re: Panorama photography / widely variable light - solution??


"Destin_FL" <hightidemedia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
If I take my D70 outside and do a full 360 pano shot with the Panosaurus
head,
having determined the nodal point of the Tokina 12-24mm, man it is
fantastic.
Works perfectly; I stick them all in Smoky City Panorama Factory, and
output a
.MOV and its really beautiful.

BUT.... what I need more often than that is difficult to shoot: I need to
be
able to shoot from inside a home, to do VT's for realtors on the Gulf. If
it
wasn't important to get the Gulf in the shots, I'd just let the windows
blow
out, having the interior metered properly, and that would be fine. But I
can't
let the windows blow out because I need to be showing the Gulf (Destin) in
all
its Emerald Coast lovliness AND have the interior room metered right.

So I thought, OK I'll just set the camera to Aperture Priority so the
stitching
works, (depth of field, blah blah) and let the D70 meter for itself as it
spins
past the windows with the Gulf out there and then spins into and through
the
room. Not even close! Because of the hugely variant light intensity it
doesn't
matter if I use spot metering, center-weighted area, matrix, whatever,
none of
them capture the room correctly metered or the windows correctly metered
to see
outside.

Is the only solution one of these http://www.kaidan.com/Detail.bok?no=101
wild
one shot VR lens things??? Seems like even with one of those, the camera
wouldn't know how to capture the windows without blowing them out if it's
capturing the interiors/rooms right....

Any ideas??

Tim



Thanks for the tip on the Panosaurus head, just what I needed. I have
ordered mine.

Software I use is PTGui. Excellent. The Panosaurus head will take care of
the foreground parallax problem.

R.


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