gerald, a bit more behind the scenes info please
you were obviously not standing on the top of the burj chalifa, helicopter?
mirko
Apologies, I thought I'd replied to this, but it was obviously a similar question elsewhere.
Unobviously, I
was standing on the top of the building, and that's where the panorama was shot from.
Firstly, 48 images taken using a robotic panoramic head, that created a full spherical image. Problem though, is that the aircraft beacons and lightning conductor up there block a lot of the shot. Also, the camera position was only a foot or two higher than the edge of the top of the building.
It's hard to describe, but being up there is a bit like standing in a tin can. See the 4th "BTS" shot here -
Press Release | HIPA . That's me beneath the opened hatch, looking up into the space where I will be shooting from. You can see one of the aircraft beacons. Go up into that space, shut the hatch, set up the tripod (actually with the legs on the supports of the beacons), shoot.
So, to fix the blocking problems, I took shots leaning around the blocking objects, and also leaning over the edge of the pinnacle, shooting straight down.
When these shots are added to the stitch, they effectively make the very top of the building disappear. It would be a lot easier to describe if I could share some of the individual shots and the initial 48-shot pano, but I'm not really at liberty to do that.
Kind regards,
Gerald.
