Panoramic Photos of a Full Lynah?

[yougoon]

I have a contact who's specialty is panoramic shots (although he usually does them in India or China) and he is willing to do this for us.  Does anyone know how he would go about getting permission?  Obviously time is of the essence because the season is ending.  Any ideas you might have are appreciated.  

Also, if you have knowledge about how he would approach the Campus Store or someone else about selling the photo as a poster, that would be great too.

If you are interested in seeing his work go to:
http://www.shaiphoto.com
and click under "places" then click on the white squares

[Jim Hyla]

Pretty neat, but we still have the inside exposure problem.

[marty]

Olympus has (had?) a similar feature that is present in my point and shoot digital.  I have never played with it.

[Shorts]

So, here's the picture (if I'm posting the image correctly).  As Age suggested, it's from near the concession stand.

[yougoon]

I am told that the "inside exposure problem" will not be a problem with the right equipment.

[Ben Doyle 03]

that looks pretty good for not having the big $$$ set-up ... i would stick with that angle, it seems to capture everything from the rafters and banners to the intimate feeling that lynah is known for. taken with a full house i think it'll look great.

btw ... is that three frames stitched together?



Post Edited (02-27-04 09:44)

[Shorts]

With a typical "serious" set-up, ie. a reasonably wide-angle lens, you could probably get that shot in 3 frames.  With a specialized fish-eye lens, you could probably get it by cropping a single exposure (although with only one frame, you probably couldn't blow it up to poster size...maybe you could with film).  With my point-and-shoot digital, which has a minimum focal length of 5.8mm (35mm equiv. is 38mm), it actually took 7 vertical frames stitched together.

[CowbellGuy]

The wider you go, the more distortion you'd get, so stitching more vs. less photos together will probably give you a better result. I'll try it with my Nikkor 17-35 and see what happens.

[billhoward]

Your choices: Get a single shot with an ultrawideangle 35mm camera lens say down around 12mm. It will be a lot but not the whole arena.

Stitch a couple digital or film photos together electroncially. If you had a film camera and motor drive you could do it so quickly the player movement on ice would be minimimized. Try for the anthem when nobody's moving. (Or using Photoshop drop into the center of the frame the players on ice, all from a single frame; if fans move int he background, it's too blurry to notice.) Or just before a faceoff. Use a tripod so the sequence of photos is lined up. Overlap by one-third.

Get a couple people to shoot at the same time and stitch the photos together. But unless they're the same cameras you'd have color balance issues. Even with the same model cameras they'd have to be balanced.

Rent a panorama camera. It's a couple hundred dollars. (Film moves past a vertical slit/lens that turns; some other cameas actually rotate on a tripd.) You might screw up taking the picture. So rent the pro at the same time. There must be one or two Ithaca pros who've used them at one time.

Contact Cornell sports information. And/or the team. Maybe they could lend a hand in cutting red tape. The picture could make money. Could be a nice recruiting tool.


Lighting will not be a major problem with the right film or a higher speed digital camera.

Good luck. - Bill Howard '74

[CowbellGuy]

Well, here's my first stab at it. Still playing with stitching software and I have a few more sequences I haven't even looked at yet.



Bigger version here:
http://elynah.com/pictures/misc/pan1b.jpg

[Travis \'02]

That's nice!

[rhovorka]

I'll post the 2 photos I mentioned earlier in this thread.  Oddly enough, it seems that Clarkson is our preferred opponent for rink photography.

This one appeared in an issue of Cornell Alumni Magazine over a year ago.  It was probably taken in the mid-90s, judging by the presence of the old cloth banners and the few ads that are on the boards.  The photo is credited to Chris Hildreth/UP.


This was on the front of the pocket schedule around 1993-1994.

[chris \'06]

i don't know how feasable this would be, but a panoramic shot of lynah at the "red" during the National Anthem would probably look really nice

obviously this wouldn't be possible if you were taking multiple pictures and stitching them together

[CowbellGuy]

I think I did that (at least for the student side) in one of the sequences I haven't looked at yet. We'll see how it looks.

[CowbellGuy]

OK. It wasn't a sequence. Just a single wide shot.