Tikiorama - The Virtual Tiki Experience - General Tiki

O Okolehao Tiki Socialite Monterey, CA Joined: May 03, 2006 Posts: 248	O Okolehao Posted posted on Sun, Apr 25, 2010 5:44 PM Thanks - I really have fun doing these. If nobody does anymore I might go back and redo the ones I've already done now that I've got the hang of it. Here is a good site for learning how to make panoramas: http://www.panoguide.com/howto/;jsessionid=C9A3BF8CB71DD28F386A27C0967C2E88 Here is the free program I used for stitching the photos.: http://www.autostitch.net If anyone is intimidated by the process I'll do the stitching and uploading to you3dview.com for you if you'll take the pictures. Three things to remember that will help you the most. Turn off the flash and set the exposure to a high setting. You want to get the ambient light but usually inside it's too dark. Your camera will try to set the shutter speed so low that it's hard to get a focused picture because you can't hold the camera steady for that long. The photo will be grainier but it's a trade off. Try to aim the camera straight ahead on all shots. Think of a horizontal line at eye level running all around the room and follow it. It's hard because it's natural to kind of wander a little high and low after each shot. Turn to the right after each photo and overlap the next photo about 1/4 to 1/3 of the last photo. Go completely around the room to back where you started. Don't stop too soon. Really - if you have a favorite bar or restaurant it just takes 2 minutes to take the pictures. You'll have fun and you'll also be doing something that may help some tiki researcher 100 years from now when your favorite place is long gone and tiki will have been forgotten. Someone will put together a big thick ipad-VR coffee table book that will be a collectible because it's out of print and which will spawn a tiki renaissance where mugs are collected, old music and clothes become hip, and many, many people spend waaaay too much time on the net talking about it. "That old panorama must have been made in 2028/9 because Tikifarm didn't issue that radioactive mug after that. And the holographic bar was definitely a Bamboo Ben creation that was started about then when the Trader Vic's Salt Lake City, UT closed and he was recycling dialithium crystals to power waterfall fixtures." :)

Thanks - I really have fun doing these. If nobody does anymore I might go back and redo the ones I've already done now that I've got the hang of it.

Here is a good site for learning how to make panoramas: http://www.panoguide.com/howto/;jsessionid=C9A3BF8CB71DD28F386A27C0967C2E88

Here is the free program I used for stitching the photos.:
http://www.autostitch.net

If anyone is intimidated by the process I'll do the stitching and uploading to you3dview.com for you if you'll take the pictures. Three things to remember that will help you the most.

Turn off the flash and set the exposure to a high setting. You want to get the ambient light but usually inside it's too dark. Your camera will try to set the shutter speed so low that it's hard to get a focused picture because you can't hold the camera steady for that long. The photo will be grainier but it's a trade off.
Try to aim the camera straight ahead on all shots. Think of a horizontal line at eye level running all around the room and follow it. It's hard because it's natural to kind of wander a little high and low after each shot.
Turn to the right after each photo and overlap the next photo about 1/4 to 1/3 of the last photo. Go completely around the room to back where you started. Don't stop too soon.

Really - if you have a favorite bar or restaurant it just takes 2 minutes to take the pictures. You'll have fun and you'll also be doing something that may help some tiki researcher 100 years from now when your favorite place is long gone and tiki will have been forgotten. Someone will put together a big thick ipad-VR coffee table book that will be a collectible because it's out of print and which will spawn a tiki renaissance where mugs are collected, old music and clothes become hip, and many, many people spend waaaay too much time on the net talking about it.

"That old panorama must have been made in 2028/9 because Tikifarm didn't issue that radioactive mug after that. And the holographic bar was definitely a Bamboo Ben creation that was started about then when the Trader Vic's Salt Lake City, UT closed and he was recycling dialithium crystals to power waterfall fixtures."
:)

Post #526121 by Okolehao on Sun, Apr 25, 2010 5:44 PM