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Tips for getting good Photosynth images?
September 14, 2009 - 2:55pm
If you've already done this activity, do you have any suggestions for getting good images for Photosynth? I've already read Microsoft's manual which is pretty good, and I'm looking for practical tips for our specific subject. One thing I've noticed is that the horse is not equally luminated on all sides, especially if the sun is shining or if the sky has a lot of moving clouds. Is that a problem for Photosynth? Should I try to enhance my images to try to get them all to the same levels of brightness? Or should I look for a cloudy time?
Unfortunately I can't just try it till I get it right since I'm a Mac user and get just one shot at this on Wednesday night. I'd like to get something that's kind of decent looking!
September 14, 2009 - 8:19pm
#2
I just now finally got a 100% synthy rating, with a horse from outside.
One thing I did notices is that if your horse doesn't have enough drawing on it (like if it's too solid), then photosynth may sometimes align building in the background with each other INSTEAD of aligning your horse all the time.
I don't think the variations in lighting are going to matter too much as long as they aren't really extreme.
September 16, 2009 - 12:43pm
#3
I unfortunately have tried 3 horses with no success... I am THRILLED to see that I can bring my pictures to RIT tonight between 6-9 to have them Synth it for me :) :) :) :)
See you there!
I don't know about the lighting. I tried two different horses. One was outdoors. I followed the Microsoft directions, took about 30 pictures of each and ended up with a 100% synthy rating (which I think means it was able to match up all of my photos with each other)on my indoor horse. The outdoor one was harder to photograph because of some obstacles and I only got a synthy score of 52%. If you have the time and the skill, I would probably play a bit with your images to see if you can get them to be closer in brightness to each other.