Project 0:Vertigo Shot by Michael Chuang
Since my Canon Powershot SD750 is coming in on tuesday from amazon...and the hw is due on monday, I borrowed my friend's Casio Exilim EX-770.
I spent 90% of my time on this assignment trying to figure out why I couldn't get permissions to the class directory. My guess is I registered late,
and most likely didn't get the necessary afs permissions. I'm hosting this off my ece account, and will transfer it over after things get worked out.
The hw itself was pretty straight forward and fun.
Basic Assignments
I used the door for reference in dolly sequence A. I used the madden game cover box for reference in dolly sequence C (I thought I'd photograph the game that I spend most of my free time playing on.). Thankfully, I had lines in my camera lcd screen so it made it easier to do this assignment. Otherwise, I would have had a difficult time lining things up.
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Bells and Whistles
I used adobe photoshop cs3 for the animation. The two animated gifs for the dolly zoom are shown above.
I used a 0.1 delay between images. And then used a 1 second pause for beginning and ending frames to make it more visually appealing.
I moved the camera back and at an angle so it gave the illusion of the game cover moving in the background
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Here's a digital zoom version I did...I actually thought it looked better than dolly zoom.
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Field of View Calculation
From using the equation given in the second lecture, the field of view (FOV) can be calculated with FOV = arctan(d/2f).
For the FOV calculations, the measurements are below:
The width of the game box cover: 6 inches Distance from camera to game box at minimum zoom: 9 inches Distance from camera to game box at maximum zoom: 22 inches| Minimum Zoom | Maximum Zoom |
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| Madden game box cover was 294 pixels = 6 inches Entire picture is thus 320 * 6 / 294 = 6.53 inches Distance to camera is 9 inches Field of view is arctan(6.53/(2*9) = ~20 degrees | Madden game box cover was 282 pixels = 6 inches Entire picture is thus 320 * 6 / 282 = 6.8 inches Distance to camera is 22 inches Field of view is arctan(6.8/(2*22) = ~8.7 degrees |