Video: elaborate multi-camera rig elegantly captures giant redwood tree
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 2nd 2009 8:23AM
posted Oct 2nd 2009 8:23AM
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Ummm... wow.
***engages Comic Book Guy Voice ***
Surely you meant to say "scout trooper," not "stormtrooper."
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Scout_trooper
***scoffs ***
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Huh huh huh... They said "giant wood".
when the robots attack that's where my base will be, in the trees!
uhhh ... have you even seen the matrix?
Everybody's seen the Matrix. We're, like, in it right now, man.
That robot attack had better be in the next few years. Redwoods are dying off.
YOU'VE GIVEN AWAY THE LOCATION, IT'S USELESS NOW
Ok and if zombies attack first I shotty that tree base.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE NOW BELONG TO US!!!
Thank you, that was a wonderful way to wake up this morning. The video is relaxing.
well, that picture is useless as a desktop background!
Turn it sideways across 2 1920X1600 monitors :)
Stupid numbers. That would be 2 1920x1200 monitors.
holy cow.
no...holy tree!
I was in downtown Charlottesville, VA last week and they had a 4 or 5 story print of that on one of the buildings. It was an Ad for the Nat Geo show.
I'd like to see a pic of that.
I can make that happen. You'll have to wait till lunch though.
PLEASE tell me you're not a Va Tech fan. Please
Son of a B!
I live there and I missed it. ='[
You know how many trees were chopped just so that you could make that long long picture?
None.
Easy math.
Yup, all in camo, no one will see me. Ha!
"Here's your blue helmet sir..."
Damn.
Since when do UN Peacekeepers take photos for the NG?
this reminds me of a book that came out a few years back called 'tree: a new vision of the american forest'. the photographer (james balog) did a similar shoot of redwoods, although not as seemless as this one.
Wow, they discovered AutoStitch
well, would you ever wanna hand stitch together 84 images that are probably each over 10 megapixels large?
Endor!
Funny, I have done something 'similar' in much smaller scale some time ago:
http://gallery.bobek.cz/v/processed/Misc/strom.jpg.html
very cool.
Got wood?
1 year of planning? 3 weeks of rigging? WTF? Doesn't seem more than a 1-week job to me, including building the rig.
agreed.
one does not simply walk into Mordor...
"1 year of planning" doesn't necessarily mean he devoted all his time to this project for 1 year. It probably included a lot of time waiting for the custom rigging to be fabricated (or modified), filing the necessary paperwork to be allowed to do this in a State Park, and then waiting around till it's the right season to do the actual shoot.
All your base are belong to us!
*Yawn*
just die then
Yup, becuz learnin' no cumputer stuf is not funz.
A year of planning to take few pictures of a tree? I want a job and get paid to sit on my ass and talk about how i want to take a picture of a tree.
Seems downright stupid to go to all that effort, and then have 5 people climbing the tree in brightly colored jackets in the photo. Why not clear the scene first?
Because you'd like to show scale?
That thing would make some sweet paper.
I am simply in awe......I am not sure if it is more the tree or the picture...
Were not the Star Wars S. Trooper hovercycle sequences filmed at Muir Woods, Marin-area north of SanFran?
It is the last Ent!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ent
When I'm taking photos of large objects - like my family. Instead of mounting rigs to fit everyone in, I just just stand back a really really long long way. I'm going to call Nat Geo and sell those idiots my idea!
This is in the middle of a forest... you cant stand back that far without trees getting in your way.
We had a 4 story tall poster of that picture on our clock tower at Humboldt State University. The professor that is featured in the article teaches at HSU. It's really cool to see this on engadget!