Pardon my dumbness; it's seems (from the thread) you're talking about shooting a mosaic style set; in this context what is a "2x2 pattern" (since I suspect the full matrix will be more 8x13 images or whatever).
Second - how big is the physical painting? BugBear On 4 November 2015 at 23:56, Terry Duell <tdu...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Hello All, > I have become involved in a project to help an artist friend prepare an > image of a painting to be used to make giclee prints, and I'm looking for > any thoughts on what I should do to get it right and what to avoid. > To date, my friend has had his paintings photographed commercially, with a > medium to large format film camera, the transparency then scanned on a drum > scanner to produce an image that would print at original size at 300 ppi. > I'll be shooting with a Pentax K-3 II (aps-c sensor), and aim to shoot a > 2x2 pattern with about 30% overlap vertically and about 50% overlap > horizontally...that's roughly how it works out from the painting and sensor > proportions. > I'll shoot from a weighted tripod, using pixel shift mode, and at this > stage thinking about using a 150-450 lens at about 300mm. > The intention is to set the painting vertical on a stand, with lighting > each side at about 45 deg. > It is a simple matter to set the camera at the correct height shooting > horizontally, but not quite as simple to ensure we are normal to the > painting in the horizontal plane. I would like to try to minimise any > perspective effects as much as possible. The thinking at the moment is to > move the painting vertically and horizontally on a fixed easel to align for > each shot, rather than move the camera. I think we can better keep the > shots normal to the painting by this method. > That's probably enough to be going on with...any thoughts? > > Cheers, > -- > Regards, > Terry Duell > > -- > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > ---You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/op.x7lortbwrs0ygh%40localhost. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/CAES-0n9dpXKjkF%3DPKUnG9kdqLJ%2BySOKJjwbD3op6fr7shXq36g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
