RE:IKEA Kitchens

Subject: RE:IKEA Kitchens

From: Terry VerHaar <email@hidden>

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 13:38:38 -0700

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In fact, the way this effect is typically achieved is, indeed, to mount several/many cameras in a smooth arc (only up to something less than 150 degrees or so if you don't want to start seeing the other cameras in the shot) and fire all the cameras at once. This way you freeze whatever motion is in the shot (pouring, spilling, dropping, juggling, whatever) at one moment in time and capture the action from all the angles at this one point in time. Then, the shots are strung together like video frames or in a QTVR and "playing" the video/QTVR gives a sense of frozen motion but from all angles. Sort of a 3D freeze frame.

Clearly you could do what the client is asking - move the camera and take a new shot, repeating over and over - but you couldn't freeze any motion and it would be exactly like dollying a video/film camera around the object or making a typical large object QTVR (moving the camera like the car examples as opposed to using a turntable for small objects). Maybe a nice shot but certainly nothing very dramatic. You would lose all sense of the visual that they are looking for.

Terry VerHaar

On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:08 PM, email@hidden wrote:

From: "George Birbilis" <email@hidden>

Date: July 2, 2007 8:56:28 AM PDT

To: "'Scott Witte'" <email@hidden>

Cc: email@hidden

Subject: RE: ikea kitchens

I was shown this project last year by a Sydney client who wanted

to do something similar for a fly-around of a car. I spoke about

dolly-tracks and grips and serious camera and computer-time

Them: "No, we don't have anywhere near the budget for that. I

don't understand why we can't just put a DSLR onto a tripod, take a

shot, move it a bit, take another..."

Andrew,

Actually, if you didn't have to freeze people in place and therefore

need to make the motion and shooting time quick, I'm not sure why you

couldn't do it without the motion control rig. Michael Albers posted

this link to some of his work in February, for instance:

http://www.albersfotografie.de/panopage/pano-index.asp, and I've seen

several similar collections. Or was your client's project much more

involved?

If you search the list archive you'll find an e-mail of mine with a possible

solution when this had been discussed in the past again. You could make a

similar time freeze with multiple cameras in a ring formation and some

masking-out custom editing software (to mask out the other cameras)

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