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360°-Photoshoot for Virtual Tour of the Holiday Inn (Berlin Schönefeld)

360° Aufnahmen im Holiday Inn Berlin Schönefeld von 360° Fotograf Stefan Klenke

This project, for which our company VR-EASY was commissioned, was about capturing the largest conference room of the Holiday Inn at Berlin Schönefeld Airport in high-quality 360 ° recordings. It should be clearly shown how versatile the 625m² large conference room can be used - to support the hotel in marketing the location.

For this purpose, I had the idea to take the panorama views from different points of view in the hall with different seating scenarios, so that in the end you can

could cross-fade from one variant to the next - no matter in which direction you were looking. I marked the positions in the empty space and first photographed everything in the empty state. Over the next three days, the incredibly good team at the Holiday Inn had the colossal task of completely rebuilding the hall several times. This often took many hours. Then I photographed each usage variant for about 30 minutes and then everything was cleared away and the next setup was prepared. On those days I was happy that I only had to work behind the camera.

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Materialien zum Markieren der Aufnahmepositionen der 360°-Kamera im Holiday Inn Berlin Schönefeld von 360°-Fotograf Stefan Klenke

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360°Photo of Live-Concert Stahlzeit in Familiengarten Eberswalde 23.8.2019

Ein hochauflösendes 360° Foto während eines Live-Gigs am Abend? Kein leichtes Unterfangen schon bei klassischen Fotoaufnahmen. Doch noch viele schwieriger bei 360°-Fotografie, da die Kamera nicht nur ein Bild macht - sondern sich in alle Richtungen dreht und dabei 12 Einzelbilder macht (oder sogar noch mehr - je nach Setup). Diese werden dann erst später zu einer Fotokugel zusammengenäht. Technisch muss dafür bei den Aufnahmen vieles beachtet werden, damit tatsächlich ein gutes 360°-Foto dabei enstehen kann.

Bei Live-Gigs herrschen fast immer extrem schwierige Lichtbedingungen. In einem Moment gibt es grellstes Licht von der Bühne, in der nächsten Sekunde kann es schon wieder rabenschwarz sein. Noch dazu Band bewegt sich die Band auch schnell und ständig - also könnten total verschwommen sein.
Obendrauf gab es bei die Auflage v om Management nach dem 3. Song fertig zu sein. Also hatte ich nur ein paar Minuten Zeit, um die 360°-Aufnahme der echt guten Rammstein-Cover Band Stahlzeit in den Kasten zu kriegen. Unter diesen Extremen Bedingungen merkt man besonders, wie wichtig Erfahrung ist und wie wichtig, dass man sein Kit auch im Schlaf bedienen könnte. Und natürlich das richtige Equipment! Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit dem Ergebnis. Und die Band war auch echt der Hammer!

Achja den Familiengarten in Eberswalde kann ich auch wärmstens empfehlen. Eigentlich sollte er Familien-Abenteuer-Erlebnisland heißen weil es super viele spannende Sachen zum Entdecken gibt - für Klein und Groß. Überzeugt euch selbst im Virtuellen Rundgang den ich fotografiert habe. LINK: VIRTUELLER RUNDGANG FAMILIENGARTEN EBERSWALDE

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Big Challenges: 360° Photo of the Berliner Ensemble theatre

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1. Challenge: Low Light

For a pilot project by our company VR-EASY, I was asked to create a high-resolution 360 ° image of the main hall of the Berlin Ensemble. As many of the seats as possible should be visible in the picture. During the location check a few weeks before the shoot date, I immediately recognized the main challenges of this task. First: The hall is relatively dark for photo recordings. With 360 ° shots, I almost always shoot with a fairly closed aperture in order to achieve a large depth of field. This means that little light would reach the sensor. To compensate for this I had to work with fairly long exposure times between 10-20 seconds.

2. Challenge: Little Time

Actually, this would not be a big problem with classic photography - since it is relatively easy to achieve good, blur-free results with a tripod. With our high-quality 360 ° set-up, however, we not only take a photo to get a spherical photo, but in this case I needed 35 individual images (24mm focal length) in 3 HDR exposure levels for a particularly high resolution and exposure depth ( these individual images are only sewn together later using stitching software called PTGui). It took me over 30 minutes to photograph a single complete photo sphere! Not really a problem in a normal situation either - but time was against us in this case. We only had a 90-minute time window (including assembly) to get everything in the box - we had waited for this window for months - there is rarely an empty stage in a busy theater. The stagehands also had to start setting up a new piece on that day.

3. Challenge: 4m High Tripod

As I said, I also had the task of depicting as many seats as possible at the same time, something that I could only reach at a height of 4 meters in the middle of the hall. To get to this height, I rented a high tripod that my teammates had just installed in the narrow rows of seats. That means the setup cost us time and the recordings themselves too. And to check the shots I had to turn the camera down every time and then turn it up again. With that little time, there was no room for error. Everything had to be right.

And to cut a long story short: I nailed it. Phew The 360 ° result (30,332x15,166 pixels (460 megapixels) can be seen here: