It occurs to me that we are missing a great opportunity to promote
VR. While we can't be in Iraq with the "action", we can offer our
technical support to photographers there to help them produce
panoramas of the situation. Basically we can offer our photographer
colleagues a crash course in crude hand-held pano shooting, get their
images via email and stitch them.
I would like to get together some rough PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS and some
VOLUNTEERS to stitch and post the completed images.
I don't believe many photographers are working with tripods, so we would have
to offer a primer on hand held shooting with fisheye and 14mm lens.
For example "
take 4 photos with fisheye lens, 90 degrees apart, rotate the camera
so the camera back is rotating rather than the lens...then take a
shot parallel to the sky and ground..."
We would need some guidelines for quick shooting with a 14mm lens also.
Personally I know several photographers working in Iraq, and I am
sure they would interested in producing panoramic images of the
events.
OK, to recap, I am looking for (1) down and dirty tips for producing
panos using hand held 14mm and fisheye lenses, and (2) volunteers to
stitch and post these images.
I believe this can work and we can help produce a unique visual
archive of some of the events in Iraq.
