Hi folks,
during Rio de Janeiro Carnival you can follow more than 180 groups in only one weekend. The groups are usually called “blocos” that I guess can be translated to block in English. Last February 12th I went to photograph a block called Vira Lata. I put a pole over the truck to shoot the crowd following the group. You can see the panoramic picture to listen to their sound.
Technical datasheet:
This time I have used a new adapter to hold the pole. It was simply an aluminum bar over which I put my foot to keep the pole fixed. The truck was shaking very much and it made the stitching very complicated and mainly on the nadir view the immersive panorama needed a lot of post edition in GIMP. Besides that there was the expected difficulty of joining pictures of moving people. It is easy to find some people without head and some other body parts apart.
- Camera: Canon 550D (RebelT2i)
- Lens: Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm
- Tripod: Dolica proline with nodal ninja pole fixed to an aluminum bar and panoramic head self made – model #2
- Spin: 8 steps at 45 degrees horizontal with the cam at about 30º down + 8 steps at 45 degrees horizontal with cam at about 30º up
- Pictures: 3 RAWs with 18megapixels at each stop, varying 1EV with Magic Lantern firmware.
- Final image: 18000×9000 pixels = 160 megapixels
- Softwares used: Hugin, Enblend + Enfuse, Multiblend, GIMP, Panotools Scripts, Panini, Deval VR player, ImageMagick, krpano tools
- Plugin: krpano viewer
See you, Cartola.