Home     Services     Galleries     Virtual Panoramas     E-Store     Contact

Please visit our sister sites...

        360NorCal.com     VirtualBlueprints.com
[Services] [Work Shops]

Dennis is a professional photographer accomplished in commercial  and VR panoramic photography. Stores, home, outdoors every where is an opportunity to shoot a panoramic photo. Dennis has been shooting panos for 4 years and doing photography for the construction industry for the last 15 years. An accomplished and friendly speaker he will guide you through the complete process of shooting a Panorama.

  This workshop will expose amateur and professional photographers to the equipment and techniques used to create these stunning photographs.  The equipment demonstrated will be a fisheye lens,standard lens, digital camera, tripod, leveler and pano head. None of that equipment will be required to participate in the workshop; however you are encouraged to bring what you have.  No time will be devoted to personal camera settings, as the time in the workshop is important to all. So please be familiar with the camera and equipment you choose to bring, and be prepared to learn interactive panoramic photography . We will shoot some panoramic photographs in the beautiful wine country of Sonoma Ca., have a light lunch then stitch what we have shot during the day. The workshop will be limited to 3 people to ensure everyone gets all the info they might need. This is a 9 hour class the cost per individual is $350.00 for a full day and $275.00 ea for 2 or 3 together.

Here is a workshop outlineupload2 002
A. What is an interactive pano?a
.  1 Single shot
   2 Multi-shot
   3 Cylinder
   4 Mosaics
   5 Giga-pixel
   6 Interactive or Virtual Reality Panos
B. Equipment for VR panoramic Photography
   1 Camera
   2 Tripod
   3 Ball Mount
   4 Leveler
   5 Panoramic Head
   6 Remote shutter releaseNN5_landscape_2
   7 Wide angle lens
C. Parallax and the Pano Head
   1 No Parallax Point
   2 How to avoid parallax
   3  How do I use my panoramic head?
      a. left to right position
      b. fore to aft position
D. Shooting the Shot
   1 Shooting the pictures
   2 Bracketing
   3 Nadir
   4 Zenith
   5 How to Determine How Many stops I Need In 360 Degrees?
   6 Shoot the shot
E. Stitching
   1 Loading the images in PTGui
   2 Adding control points
   3 Adjusting the pano
   4 Creating the pano
F. Publishing
   1 Loading images into Pano2VR
   2 Setting parameters
   3Publishing in Flash and HTML