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I'm currently working on a small, but highly detailed mural in an entryway of a business.... mural in progress
The problem is how to photograph it when I'm through... It's in a space 7 feet wide and aprox 5 feet from the entrance...will I have to take pics of it in sections and splice them together?
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I think the way you have it on the portfolio page works fine. Get the best overall shots that you can, then show lots of detail pics with them. You could never get one overall shot to show the quality or amount of detail.
BTW... As I have come to expect from you, the mural is beautiful.
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Yes it does look good as it is. Can you borrow a wide-angle lense for a normal camera to fit it all in? Otherwise, use the pic as it is, but do a perspective distortion in a photo program to square it up again. Email the original pic to me & I'll see if I can get around to having a go at doing it if you like.
Edit I just looked at the pix and it seems you have a front-on pic that looks fine.
Edit- see how this goes: It was the first picture squared up a bit. (Not as good as whichever way you did the newer pic.) Keep us all posted!
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I thought about that, but here's another problem....the pic is grainy...my digital camera saves everything at 72 dpi....
I'm sure there is a better way to save it so the detail is better, also the color is so way out of wack when i take it...I do what i can to adjust in PS, but it still looks bad.
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Adrienne, there are programs that will find the match lines and stitch your individual images into a single image. pixaround.com used to have a free download for non commercial users. It works pretty well if the camera is head on, orthagonal I think it's called, to the image.
If you use photoshop, you can square up the individual images (as shown above) and stitch them together by hand.
I have a 360 from the top of the hill next to my house. I must have put together 20 pics to get the result, but it is spectacular(to me, anyway). Vic G
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Adrienne, you may have to borrow a camera from a friend. Many cameras have a manual override for focus and exposure. The old pro trick is to take a shot at the "correct" exposure, and then shots one stop higher and lower. Then you start with the one that's the best. I'm guessing your pics are way underexposed. If you are anywhere close you can fix it in Photoshop. My Sony tends to underexpose. The reviews of the camera say this is a characteristic of the model I have. Vic G
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