here is how you take pic of a HUGE tree.

vizjerei · 10-02-2009, 08:46 AM

Check out the video

*Rich_A* · 10-02-2009, 09:12 AM

Yeah, Nick Nichols has been one of my favorite natural world photographers for a lot of years. I don't think there's another photographer on the planet who consistently demonstrates a better understanding of the natural world. His photo journey of the Megatransect [warning: flash-driven page with sound!] was simply staggering...

r0ckstarr · 10-02-2009, 11:37 AM

That's awesome. I dig how they used 3 separate camera's. Thanks for posting this.

*WMBP* · 10-02-2009, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by r0ckstarr

That's awesome. I dig how they used 3 separate camera's. Thanks for posting this.

WHY did they use three cameras? I can understand the dolly and the idea of taking many shots and stitching them together. But why not just have 1 camera, hoist it up slowly taking a shot every 10 ft or whatever, and then stitch 'em together afterwards?

Will

rfortson · 10-02-2009, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by WMBP

WHY did they use three cameras? I can understand the dolly and the idea of taking many shots and stitching them together. But why not just have 1 camera, hoist it up slowly taking a shot every 10 ft or whatever, and then stitch 'em together afterwards?

Will

Why? Because they can, Will. Because they can.

r0ckstarr · 10-02-2009, 08:18 PM

So they can cover a wide area of the tree at once. It looks like one camera is pointed to the left, another in the center, and the other off to the right.

David Glazebrook · 10-02-2009, 09:23 PM

Nice ... thanks for sharing

marcdsgn · 10-03-2009, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by WMBP

WHY did they use three cameras? I can understand the dolly and the idea of taking many shots and stitching them together. But why not just have 1 camera, hoist it up slowly taking a shot every 10 ft or whatever, and then stitch 'em together afterwards?

Presumably all three cameras are firing at the same time. If they used a single unit, then any movement of leaves and branches between shots (due to breeze, etc) would prevent a perfect match at the stitch joins.

seescape · 10-04-2009, 05:08 AM

there was a show on the Nation Geographic Channel called "Climbing Redwoods" that I watched and this was in the show. I wish they would have gotten into depth a little more though, there is going to be a 5 page spread of this mighty Redwood in a up coming edition of the National Geographic Magazine, so if you are interested in seeing the printed picture of the result of this contraption keep your eyes peeled for a new copy of that magazine. it took them 21 days to photograph that tree as well.

*WMBP* · 10-06-2009, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by r0ckstarr

So they can cover a wide area of the tree at once. It looks like one camera is pointed to the left, another in the center, and the other off to the right.

Brian,

Ah, yes, now I see that. At first I thought that one was pointed UP and one DOWN (and one straight forward) and that didn't make sense.

Will

*graphicgr8s* · 10-06-2009, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by David Glazebrook

Nice ... thanks for sharing

Ditto here. Wonder how many board feet of lumber I can get out of her.