Doug Aurand
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Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 15 Mar 2010 at 21:56 GMT
updated: 15 Mar 2010 at 21:57 GMT
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I just did this 3 scene tour of the Staybridge Suites North in Albuquerque as part of their upcoming Feature Page on my site VirtualAlbuquerque.com
www.vabq.com/staybridgenort/index.htm
Shot with a Canon XTi/400D, Coastal Optics 4.88mm with its proprietary 2 stop rotator on top of an NN R-D4 to get 3 stops, compositing with Photomatix Pro's HDR/Tone Mapping and Exposure Fusion, stitched with PTGui 7.3 and converted to Flash with Pano2VR
They will be the first Flash tour on VirtualAlbuquerque.com starting the switch from iPIX on the site
They will also be adding it to their listing on www.ichotelsgroup.com using a PTViewer version
Doug Aurand
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Ken Warner
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 16 Mar 2010 at 0:09 GMT
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So that's three around? Or two?
There's just a little glitch in the ceiling of The Great Room but still it looks like a practical kit to get the job done fast and easy.
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 16 Mar 2010 at 0:37 GMT
updated: 16 Mar 2010 at 0:38 GMT
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Ken
Its 3 around. With the CO 4.88mm's 185° FOV (PTGui says 190°), three shots stitches really fast in PTGui
Darn, I missed that misalignment. An extra control point would probably fix it.
I was in an out of the hotel in 3 hours, including staging the rooms and changing light bulbs back & forth
Thanx
Doug Aurand
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 16 Mar 2010 at 2:28 GMT
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Ken
Its fixed, thanx for catching it
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Paul Thomas
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 10:35 GMT
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Hi Doug,
Picking up on your prior post, could you explain the reason behind changing the bulbs for the shoot as it may be of help to others/myself
Thanks,
Paul
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Vilmer
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 14:23 GMT
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And what other staging did you do?
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 15:01 GMT
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Paul
I replaces all the bulbs in the lamps with 5000k to 5500k compact fluorescents - sunlight equivalent
That cuts down on the different types of lighting in the rooms and eliminates the harsh yellow glows around the lamps
I learned from this shoot and the Residence Inn before, if the room is bright enough, put lower brightness bulbs like 40 watt equivalents or less so you don't have to deal with quite as big a "blow out" around the lamp.
One set of lamps had 100 watt equivalents that I matched and the lamps were too bright when I went to Enfuse/Exposure Fusion them.
Hope thats helps
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 15:07 GMT
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vilmer
I removed all the advertising material, magazines, tv remotes, waste baskets and hid as many of the wires and cords around the work desk as I could.
Also took all the cords off the phone hand sets.
It kind of freaks out the hotel manager when I pick up the waste basket and start walking around throwing things into it. After the shoot I put it all back
I adjusted the drapes, arranged pillows, straightened lamp shades, etc. In one room the lamp was so crooked that I traded it out with the same one in the room I was working out of.
When I was done, I put everything back
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 15:40 GMT
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Both of the prior posts apply to the guest rooms & suites.
For the Great Room I just removed all the clutter, advertising, magazines & newspapers, straightened the tables & chairs and hid some waste baskets from the camera
I requested that the guest rooms/suites be on the north side of the hotel so there was no direct sunlight on the windows.
For the Residence Inn North in my previous thread "A liitle one bits the dust" the rooms were on the east and west sides of the hotel, so I shot the room with the west facing window in the morning and I had to wait for the sun to pass over to shoot the room with the east facing windows
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Vilmer
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 17:01 GMT
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Tnx Doug, when I see 'staging' I always think of adding stuff. Like the cliche bottle of champagne and the bouquet of flowers and that kind of things. Having magazines, cables and newspapers in the room makes it kind of messy in the pics.
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 17:11 GMT
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Vilmer
I picked up the practices from doing 11 hotel shoots for PhotoWebUSA
The thinking was some of the advertising and amenities would change over the 3 year expected life of the virtual tours and still photos we did, so we removed them.
Also, we didn't want anything that wasn't normally in the room, like champagne and flowers. The one I saw that was odd was a room service tray in a hotel that didn't have rooms service????
I was willing to make an exception for a hot super model in lace lingerie on the bed, but it was a no go with the manager 
As far as "paper" items like adverstising, the thinking was; if you couldn't read it in the stills and virtual images, it didn't belong in the scene
Later
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Paul Thomas
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 18 Mar 2010 at 16:29 GMT
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Thanks also Doug for your insight and some useful tips.
I recently offered to put together a tour for friends who are selling their house that I am shooting at the end of the month and have been researching tips on interior photography. So was quite interested in the light bulbs!
Also about shooting at the right time of the day should the windows be facing the sun.
Now you've explained it all seems kind of obvious and is that extra attention to detail that I have been wanting to glean from others more experienced than myself.
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Another little one bites the dust
Posted: 18 Mar 2010 at 18:22 GMT
updated: 18 Mar 2010 at 18:31 GMT
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Paul
Like you said, it all seems so obvious when some one points it out to you, like PhotoWebUSA did for me.
Note that I usually don't change the light bulbs for my lower paying real estate tours and just deal with the light I have for the hour I'm in the house.
Because the hotels are paying so much more and will use the images so much longer I have a different set of standards for my tours and photography
Good luck with the shoot
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