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When I first began doing bonsai about 25 years ago, there was an argument advanced against using photography. Photographs flattened the tree, the argument ran, so a photo couldn’t be trusted, particularly in the case of back branches.
One way around this problem is to rotate the tree. Sergio Cuan and Barrosinc did this over a whole year and an interesting animation resulted.
I used 4 mirrors to give a 360-degree view. I recently used my Chojubai White as a subject. Here is the panorama:
http://pnr.ma/boaVZw
For this image, my iPhone7, and a small piece of hardware and software made by the DerManDar company. The hardware, a rotator, holds the iPhone in a clamp. The rotator is connected to the iPhone by Bluetooth. To give the complete 720-degree pano, DerManDar also makes a 160-degree fisheye lens that can be clipped on the iPhone. The software pauses the rotation at appropriate times, and fires the shutter of the camera for excellent panoramas.
From the panorama, you can see all sides of my tree.
Another interesting factoid about the panorama is that if you are using a desktop computer and click on the link above, you will get a very large image, rotating slowly. If you are using a smartphone, you will get a single image, which then divides into a stereo pair, a kind of 3D image which requires a Virtual Reality headset to work well. When you look at the stereo pair through the headset, your brain fuses the 2 images into one with 3D.
One way around this problem is to rotate the tree. Sergio Cuan and Barrosinc did this over a whole year and an interesting animation resulted.
I used 4 mirrors to give a 360-degree view. I recently used my Chojubai White as a subject. Here is the panorama:
http://pnr.ma/boaVZw
For this image, my iPhone7, and a small piece of hardware and software made by the DerManDar company. The hardware, a rotator, holds the iPhone in a clamp. The rotator is connected to the iPhone by Bluetooth. To give the complete 720-degree pano, DerManDar also makes a 160-degree fisheye lens that can be clipped on the iPhone. The software pauses the rotation at appropriate times, and fires the shutter of the camera for excellent panoramas.
From the panorama, you can see all sides of my tree.
Another interesting factoid about the panorama is that if you are using a desktop computer and click on the link above, you will get a very large image, rotating slowly. If you are using a smartphone, you will get a single image, which then divides into a stereo pair, a kind of 3D image which requires a Virtual Reality headset to work well. When you look at the stereo pair through the headset, your brain fuses the 2 images into one with 3D.