Here is another virtual tour from this house, featuring the large master bathroom. This one is a single exposure, but I took a second exposure that I could use to gain some more light inside the master bedroom.
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Master Bathroom Virtual Tour
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Kitchen Virtual Tour : Blended Exposures
Sunday, March 16th, 2008After the conservatory, I moved my setup into the kitchen to take a virtual tour in there. In the photo in the last entry, you can see the kitchen area underneath the arches in the left-hand side. To properly expose the inside of the house, I had to increase the exposure enough to wash out the conservatory. To combat this, I took two exposures in each position, stitched them both seperately, and blended the equirectangular panoramas. I was able to figure out a way to stitch two identical (or near identical) panoramas with two different sets of photos. According to theory, the two sets of photos are of the same place taken at the same time without the camera moving, but without Hugin stitching both exactly the same, trying to blend the two exposures would be impossible. Here is my final result:
Virtual Reality Panoramas (QTVR)
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008As I mentioned in my last entry, I bought a Sigma 8mm f/3.5 circular fisheye lens. A couple days before that, I received my Nodal Ninja 5 Lite in the mail. The Nodal Ninja is a panoramic tripod head that allows you to pan horizontally and vertically around the entrance pupil (sometimes called ‘nodal point’) of the lens. This ability prevents parallax between photos when taking single or multiple row panoramas. This past weekend, I used my two newest additions to my photographic collection to create a QTVR, or Quick Time Virtual Reality panorama. By taking 6 photos, one every sixty degrees, one photo straight up, one photo straight down, I captured the image data needed for a panorama 360 degrees around and 180 degrees up and down. I used Hugin, an open source, free-ware software, to stitch the photos together, and Pano2QTVR to convert to a quicktime movie file to view online. The photo below is a link to the final movie. When/if I master this process, I will write an article about it.
*The file is 1.2MB and may take a few seconds/minutes to load depending on your connection.*