Hello all,
I am looking for some good advice on making a panorama.
We are currently finishing a new building complex in the centre of a small
Belgian town. We want to present to the client a panorama of the city taken
from the highest of the two towers (18 floors, the other one is 14 floors...
these buildings are the highest of the small town). At the moment it is winter
here, deadline is three weeks from today.
Sun is low, even at noon. And we want to offer a full panorama (360 degrees,
framed as one longe strip).
I have three main questions:
1: Equipment.
Do I go for wide, shift or normal lens? I have the following available: 18f3.5,
21f2, 24shift, 35 shift, 50f2, 100f2.
My gut feeling is the 24 or 35 shift, which I then would use in portrait mode,
shifted about 1/2 down, as to catch more of the surroundings. (however, the
tower is square, and I 'll be standing in the middle of the platform, so there
would then be much platform to see as well.)
2: taking the actual panorama:
- I was thinking of drawing a big circle on the top deck (about 20m square), as
close as possible to the border, divide into 24 or 36, and take a picture from
that point straight outward. This way I can leave out much of the deck. BUT
WOULD THIS WORK????
- Standing in the center is impossible, since there is a structure there,
(unfortunately too smaal to stand on with tripod)
- I will be there with the sun in my back, but since the pano is 360 degrees,
it will also be straight in front! I was thinking of taking 3 or 4 full series
of 24-36 images, bracketed over -1, -1/2, 0, +1/2, compose them all, and then,
in PS CS composing them to one image, so the exposure can be "even".
3: Any advice on film?
I'ld go for slide, fuij velvia 50 or sensia 100...
Many thanks for any advice!
Iwert.
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