Welcome to 2013 on dinosaurpalaeo! I’ll start the year with one whopper of a fossil from the Urweltmuseum Hauff. A Seirocrinus subangularis colony (great NHM page on the genus here), just your old sessile, filter-feeding crinoids, a long-stemmed variant that loved to grow on floating tree trunks. Nothing spectacular, right?
Well, the one I have below the fold is a 18 by 6 meter colony. Yep, meter! And it has over 100 individuals. Click “read more” to see a tiny version of the panorama photo I made using hugin – but beware, the tiny version is 4.67 MB!
click through for full size of the tiny version; full sized JPG (32.2 MB) available on request from the Urweltmuseum Hauff.
here’s a detail shot of two crowns.
and an attempt to get the entire thing into one photo:
As you can see here, the Urweltmuseum Hauff mostly presents fossils simply as fossils, with little text and practically no interpretation. An austere museum design similar to the MfN Berlin. However, as in Berlin, there are exceptions to that object-centered approach, but by not intermingling them it is easily clear what is fact and what is scientific interpretation – or artistic interpretation.
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Did you shoot the panorama by moving down the length of the display?; I was impressed with the sharpness of the two ends and the lack of parallax problems.
Did you use a tripod or were you able to hold the camera steady enough to maintain the plane of the sensor equidistant from the display?
What lens, speed and f-stop were you shooting at?
TIA.
Steve, I shot 46 photos hand-held, portrait, doing a double shot (upper 70%, lower 70%) before moving sideways by a step (~80 cm) between sets. I could not get the entire height into one shot in the middle, even at 18 mm, because I could not step far enough away.
I tried going perfectly parallel to the surface of the fossil, aided by the tiles on the floor. Seems I managed pretty well. F 5.0, 1/60 s, 18 mm, autofocus, no flash, ISO 1600. Yep, that’s high, but the thing isn’t that well lit.
Nice job; it’s difficult to shoot something that long without introducing parallax issues.
Thanks – Luckily, I was forewarned of the potential problems by hugin tutorials (highly recommended!).
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/Mosaic-mode/en.shtml
and especially
http://www.dojoe.net/tutorials/linear-pano/
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