HI all,
Ok, I hope I can describe my problem I'm trying to solve.
I have a VERY ornate house, 2 stories, that is pretty big and wide that I want to shoot the whole thing of...in a big panoramic image.
The problem is that just beyond the sidewalk is a big ass tree, and also a power pole with wires, etc.
So, I cannot back up further than the side walk and get a clean image of just the house.
The house is so wide that setting a tripod up in the middle and swinging the lens will not capture both ends of it properly.
My first thought, impractical as it is...was, that if I had a dolly and rail set up, like they often do for movies, I could set that up and make my camera essentials be on one big slider and shoot 3 different vertical levels on each pass to get the top, middle and bottom...and stitch together.
I don't have a dolly and rail system.
So, trying to figure how to do this. I could maybe get one of those rigs, to put wheels on the bottom of the tripod and slide it back and forth that way...but no good way to guarantee that each shot would be at the same place (remember, I'm also shooting 3 vertical level to get it all in)....how do I stay on a straight line and take each image at the same spots?
I then thought, well, perhaps I could get one of those carpenters' chalk line type things I"ve seen on TV house renovations shows and get a friend to help and snap a line down the side walk and then maybe mark where the wheels are each time I stop the first time...that might do it.
At that point it seemed the wheels aren't really adding anything to the equation and I could just do this with my regular tripod. I could mark where each foot was at each capture point down the line.
So far, this is the best I could come up with.
I would have to ask the home owner if he was ok with me marking on the sidewalk in front of his house.
Does anyone know how permanent chalk markings of this type are? I live in the New Orleans area and we get a LOT of rain here, so I was hoping it would naturally wash off in a matter of days or a week or so.
So....this is the best I've come up with so far.
Has anyone else had to do a shoot in this fashion? Is there a better solution?
Thank you in advance,
cayenne
Ok, I hope I can describe my problem I'm trying to solve.
I have a VERY ornate house, 2 stories, that is pretty big and wide that I want to shoot the whole thing of...in a big panoramic image.
The problem is that just beyond the sidewalk is a big ass tree, and also a power pole with wires, etc.
So, I cannot back up further than the side walk and get a clean image of just the house.
The house is so wide that setting a tripod up in the middle and swinging the lens will not capture both ends of it properly.
My first thought, impractical as it is...was, that if I had a dolly and rail set up, like they often do for movies, I could set that up and make my camera essentials be on one big slider and shoot 3 different vertical levels on each pass to get the top, middle and bottom...and stitch together.
I don't have a dolly and rail system.
So, trying to figure how to do this. I could maybe get one of those rigs, to put wheels on the bottom of the tripod and slide it back and forth that way...but no good way to guarantee that each shot would be at the same place (remember, I'm also shooting 3 vertical level to get it all in)....how do I stay on a straight line and take each image at the same spots?
I then thought, well, perhaps I could get one of those carpenters' chalk line type things I"ve seen on TV house renovations shows and get a friend to help and snap a line down the side walk and then maybe mark where the wheels are each time I stop the first time...that might do it.
At that point it seemed the wheels aren't really adding anything to the equation and I could just do this with my regular tripod. I could mark where each foot was at each capture point down the line.
So far, this is the best I could come up with.
I would have to ask the home owner if he was ok with me marking on the sidewalk in front of his house.
Does anyone know how permanent chalk markings of this type are? I live in the New Orleans area and we get a LOT of rain here, so I was hoping it would naturally wash off in a matter of days or a week or so.
So....this is the best I've come up with so far.
Has anyone else had to do a shoot in this fashion? Is there a better solution?
Thank you in advance,
cayenne