First Real Estate Tours in FPP

[DMCDigital]

Hey All,

Here are my first Real Estate Tours with FPP...Thoughts or Suggested Improvements welcome !

http://www.dmcdigitalmedia.com/hostvt/27main/index.htm

http://www.dmcdigitalmedia.com/hostvt/33main/index.htm

http://www.dmcdigitalmedia.com/hostvt/61main/index.htm

All shot and processed in the same day - (Real Estate Tours=Volume)

Regards,

Dennis

[Tuddi]

Top and bottom of the panoramas should be fixed. It doesn't take long to put a logo over the black spot in the floor, and the ceiling should be shot when you do the photo shoot. Use of stencils in order to remove ghosts would be highly recommended.... but that is of course something that demands more workhours on your part, and depends on the quality of work you have promised your client.

May I ask what camera/lens/pano-head and stitching software you use?

[DMCDigital]

I dont shoot zeinth and Nadir shots if there is nothing of interest"aka white ceiling" Some of the panos in the samples have them but i dont have the limits working right at the moment so it stops them as if they are cylindrical. I use stitcher unlimited and the blending is"morph" instead of smart blend on the cube panos...when i stitch the same images as sphere and use smart blend they are almost perfect...still working on that...may stitch as sphere and then convert to cube faces. they were shot with a d200/nikkor 10.5 and precision adjuste mk1 - I am noticing more stitch errors in full screen so I will be buying the " registration plate" from the mk2 that keeps the camera level and consistent. Did they load fast for you ?

[Tuddi]

These loaded quite well for me. I don't have the fastest of connections (1200 according to the contract, but seldomly more than 1100 during the best of times).

Precision Adjuste (http://www.360precision.com/360/index.cfm?precision=products.adjuste_gallery&MainSlideID=2&mainnavID=2) Ok, I have only seen those online, never actually tried them.

The one I use is the cheapest panohead the market offers (Panosaurus), and as such, one should expect problems. Right from the start I did what I deemed to be problem-preventive improvements, and it has paid off in both mounting and unmounting the equipment, and also in far less problems in the stitching work.

Here you can see the stability of mine (left) compared with another Panosaurus owned and used by a professional photographer working on panos (who first got me interested in panos), but his head is stock and hasn't been customized:

http://upload.hraunfjord.org/files/panoheads.jpg

No editing whatsoever has taken place in the 2 above pictures.

Normally I have little to no "ghosts" (blurring) in the shots before editing, due to the panohead being this well prepared/stable. As I have understood it, such stability comes only in heads that are very expensive... and my stability cost only a few minutes of handywork on the head.

I also use Realviz Stitcher Unlimited (ver. 5.5) and can absolutely recommend it to others.

I have just started offering my services comercially. Until now I have been on my first "learning curve".... but think that I am ready for the second curve...