New photographing method for pipes...

[meathod]

This is a little test that I did with an older pipe that I made...

I've been trying to figure out a better way of showcasing pipes for my new website, and thought that a 360 degree pan would be pretty neat. I think on the website I would just have buttons to advance the frames, instead of a continuous loop.

To make this, I mounted the pipe onto the shaft of a slow electric motor, and then shot my images as it rotated. Then took the background out of each frame and made it into a .gif for easy viewing here..

Just thought you guys might be interested!

[flix]

Except for the artifact at the bottom of the pipe, that is one cool effect! Thanks for sharing some tech with us!

[grainisgood]

Swell! I get a little dizzy looking at it but if I close one eye.... But seriously, how did you deal with depth of field? It seems relatively sharp even though parts of the pipe get further away and closer to the camera as it spins. Just curious.

[meathod]

To deal with the depth of field I used a few techniques...

First, I chose a 28mm lens. The wider the lens, the wider the depth of field. Then I shot it with an aperture of F/8. A narrow aperture opening will give you even greater depth of field. Finally, my DSLR sensor s APS-C, a tad smaller than a 35mm frame. This crops the image coming from the lens, and further increases depth a field, very slightly...

I also had to shoot at a shutter speed of 1/160th of a second, since the pipe was rotating and I wanted to avoid motion blur.

I had to do this outside at around 2pm, in direct sunlight, and then a large shop light mounted right under the pipe to illuminate the bottom and reduce shadows. I also surrounded the pipe with tinfoil reflectors. This was the only way to get enough light to shoot this at F/8 and 1/160th of a second...

[ND Pipes]

interesting - but rotating to fast for my taste... can't see details good