Re: overhead crowd scenes

• Subject: Re: overhead crowd scenes
• From: "peter murphy" <email@hidden>
• Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:45:23 +1000

... more on  handheld overhead panos ...
Parades, like depicted here in this pano
 of Anzac Day (like Remembrance Day)
 here yesterday 
www.mediavr.com/anzac.htm
 provide interesting opportunities for candid panoramic 
photography with overhead picture-taking

With a parade one really needs to plan the sequence
so there is free space in the street -- between the 
marching groups -- because by the time one gets back
around to the start with ones shots
-- a new group will be there. So thats 
what I did here -- start with a group on the right -
 looking at the street, with a gap ahead -
 then go around and wait till a new group
arrives on the left, with a fresh gap ahead. In fact
in this pano a couple of groups passed by before
I managed to get the right sort of gap to finalize
the sequence. I shot about 15 shots for this pano
but only used 5 to stitch, choosing them after the
event.

Parades like this one, or horse race ones, like
this one I did recently
http://www.mediavr.com/rosehill.htm
are engaging enough for the crowd to be pretty much
involved, but still there will often be a few in the crowd
eyeing the camera. This race one I  again
used only a few shots
for the main stitching but I copied and pasted facial
expressions from lots of shots to get good candid looking
faces. I am thinking I will try using a 3d program to map
faces where folk are looking at the camera onto generic
3d heads so I can tilt them so they appear to be 
not looking straight on.

these kind of panos would be much simpler with
full circle fisheye coverage instead of 180 by 125 degrees
with the D1/8mm

Peter Murphy 
www.mediavr.com/blog
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