
A Family of Panotwins (part 2)
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
June 24, 2011, 11:40–12:40 UTC (13:40–14:40 local time)
© 2011 Markus Matern, All Rights Reserved.
Theme
We are a big family of Panotwins ;-)Be sure to take a look at the second panorama of Panotwin Jürgen.
See the timelapse video of the shooting!
Making Of
The shooting was done with a custom-made lens bracket mounted on top of a table tripod. A similar setup was placed on a tripod and used for the second panorama. The custom lens bracket allowed us to turn around the no-parallax point of the lens.As the lenses used were fisheye lenses, four pictures easily covered 360°. To be sure we took three exposures in each direction. The exposures were 2 f-stops apart. The best exposed set was chosen before stitching.
For each pair of twins we took a bracketed set of three images from each tripod. As the lighting changed over the shooting period (approx. one hour) I chose the best matching shot for blending.
I first stitched the sphere without the Panotwins. The resulting equirectangular image was used as an anchor for the seven additional shots of the Panotwins. For each pair of Panotwins I generated a separate layer, which was blended manually in GIMP.
Lat: 50° 6' 41.2" N
Long: 8° 40' 50.21" E
Precision is: Low. Intentionally hazy, due to privacy concerns.








- Camera: Sony Alpha 700
- Lens: Sigma 8mm f/4 fisheye
- Mounting: Custom -lens bracket mounted on top of a table tripod
- Software: BibblePro, PTGui Pro, Smartblend, GIMP, Pano2VR
- 4 pictures @ 90° / ISO 200 for the "base" panorama
- 7 pictures / ISO 200 each pointed at a pair of Panotwins