Alan posted an in-the-round photo of a woman as a side note to an earlier discussion ( April 15, 2022,
#2 In the Round Technique). I tried to do a 180 degree in the round of my husband sitting on a bench. It turned out weird - the bench was off and his face, of course, was screwy. So what is the best way to approach people? Any thoughts and suggestions? I'm guessing the screwiness is processed in post through layers and masks?
I have found that the traditional ITR process is not really suited to anything that has detail that needs to be preserved, such as in facial details.
In some cases these can be simply masked in (such as in the clock images), but when rotating a human figure that doesn't really work.
The image in question was taken as an experiment as I wanted to see if a different process would work.
In that case I rotated around the subject as with traditional ITR, but in doing so I had the model rotate in sync with me, trying to keep facial features in the same position in each frame.
This I have documented on my website as below. I'm not sure if anyone else has tried this process, so for the lack of anything better I have called it the 'Orbital Portrait'.
You can check out details at the bottom of the following page;
https://www.alanbrownphotography.com/an-overview-of-humanessence-techniques.
If trying I would really like to see the result of using a tripod etc to allow for more accurate alignment. Getting all features the same size and in the same frame position is difficult, so as you will see I have blended some of the detail back in.
Posted in another example from my eldest son. I think the technique has promise, and would love for others to explore where it may be used.
Thank you, Alan. I've been super busy this past week; but now that things are calming down a bit, I really want to try this on a person as you said. I'm going on your humanessence article next. I can understand what you are saying about aligning things and making sure things are lined up as best as possible while taking the photo. Thanks for the information; I appreciate it! If it works out, I'll be posting.
A quick follow-up ... I did read your humanessence article. I think I got it. Now I just have to get out and try it in the woods by our house. It's been pouring for 3 days now.
As a follow up Jennifer, here's a shot I took of a simple street scene to experiment with. I tried to keep the positioning of the figure and umbrella somewhat consistent within the frame, moving slightly between each (9) shot.
Just trying to determine what works.... and what doesn't