2. Taking photos of the scenery
Generating a scenery always begins with taking photos of the location panorama at a designated pilot position as well as several measuring panoramas which are necessary to create correctly scaled scenery geometry. In general, two measuring panoramas are sufficient.
- Firstly mark the tracing points of the location and measuring panoramas, e. g. with little stones. You should be able to well recognize these markings on the panorama images, but they should be small enough to remove them easily from the final location panorama. We recommend you to use markings with a diameter of 5 to 10 centimetres in order to mark the points at a distance of about 20 metres. The tracing points of the location and measuring panoramas should form an equilateral triangle and must in no case be in a line.
- Draw a simple layout of the scenery and plot the tracing points of all panoramas.
- Measure the distances between all tracing points and note them on the layout.
- Take exact photos of the panoramas with help of the marked tracing points. Measure the height of the camera nodal point above the tracing point marking and note these values on your layout. Imperatively make sure that the camera is horizontally aligned to ensure that horizontal and vertical lines in the final panorama will also be exactly horizontal or vertical.
- Measure the direction to a significant object with the help of an oriented compass above the tracing point of the location panorama. Note this value on your layout. Alternatively orient the location panorama later with the help of the sun position by calculating where it should be at the specific location and time.
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