The shoot details: At 3.00am December 22nd 1997 Western Australian Standard Time we shot a pano sequence of Perth City from the Narrows Bridge which spans the Swan River. The panorama takes in the bridge (with smears of light from the occasional passing truck and close-ups of the bitumen), the Kwinana Freeway access, Perth City skyline, the Swan River, Barb's head, the Christmas tree lights display at the Old Mill in South Perth, and the illuminated War Memorial on King's Park (the tall white pyramid floating in the darkness). It was a clear, breezy summer night, with a half moon. We forgot to bring the thermos of coffee, but a family-sized block of Cadbury's Fruit&Nut Chocolate kept us awake.
The strong Sodium lighting is evident in the yellow tint, but the colour of the city lights is reasonably accurate. We were going to have the camera over the top of the railing but the wind was too strong and would have shaken the camera too much.
The Participants: Geoff Jagoe & Barb de la Hunty from Mastery Multimedia Pty Ltd, and Richard Jenkins from Curtin University of Technology.
Mastery Multimedia sells the tools for multimedia and digital video professionals. We use QTVR because it is an incredible story-telling tool, we have lots of fun with it and we like to use what we sell [you know, "product knowledge" and all that sales stuff…
Tech Specs: We used a Canon EOS 620 with 35-105 AF lens on a home-made VR head assembled from various pieces of alloy and some Manfrotto bits. [#160 and #138], all sitting on top of a set of second-hand aluminium surveyors' legs. We shot two exposure runs of 24 shots at 15 degree increments, first at 2sec and then 10sec at F8 onto KodaColor Gold III 400ASA. The pano is made from the 10 second run. The film was printed at the local fast photo shop, then the prints were scanned on a flatbed scanner at 144 pixels/inch for stitching in V2.0. Minor PhotoShop work, then compress with Cinepak at 25% and convert to V1.0 using MoviePlayer 3 and the 2 -> 1 converter.
Image size is 480x240 pixels.
email us at: mastery@iinet.net.au
Mastery's web page : http://www.iinet.net.au/~mastery [seriously out of date but due for a revamp any day now]
