Part 1 - the (close) Encounters Project

Posted by RW Groothuis · January 12, 2020

Original first posting of this article was June 2009

About the ( close ) Encounters project

This is a ongoing *) project that started about 2009 and is called the ( close ) Encounters.

The HDR ( High Dynamic Range ) portrait panorama’s are made out of 63 pictures (minimal 9 exposures per angle, 7 angles so 63 images are used to make a HDRI portrait panorama.

That makes taking the image with some thrill — it could be ruined due to the fact that if the people are moving the portrait could fail. That idea makes it fascinating for me to do it, Its always exiting to shoot. Warn the "customers" *) in advance: “we will see in the final image who moved, so do not dare to move!” Until now ( almost ) everyone has listened very good in the portrait shoots from the last years.

More background about this project please see here.

*) this is a non - commercial project

( close ) Encounters project - Part 1 - a Dutch police woman & police man

Was shooting a sunrise on 25 june 2009 (05:35) for the Dutch Skies 360° HDRI - Project . Suddenly the police came…. did an classic hands up ……but they were not going to arrest me….. it was a fun meeting.. asked Nancy & Edwin if they were ok with shooting a HDRI panorama of them.

Happy they agreed with that!

Here you can see the full panorama in 360°. Attention a new browser window will be opened.

Below you can see the full panorama.

view 360°/VR

ATTENTION!:

when clicking on view 360°/VR another browser window opens so if nothing happens check the Block Popup window.

Big thanks to Nancy & Edwin for the permission of taking the panorama and the allowance of showing it on this website.

So this is actually how this whole ( close ) Encounters project HDRI panorama portrait series started ! It was a spontaneously born idea.

Extra note:

Not completely satisfied with the colors in the final not going to make new version because the originals are hiding somewhere deep in the archives.

Last update 4 December 2020:

Next HDR panorama portrait adventure is not known yet. For sure there will popup a new one somewhere in the future.

Other Editions ( close ) Encounters

Note:

Not had the time to put all older ( close ) Encounters back online. Below you can see all HDR panorama portrait 's that are currently online. The rest will appear later.

More background about this project please see here.