Gilles Vidal in action with Gaddafi

[HansNyberg]

Gilles Vidal is covering Gaddafi visit in Paris.

If you look carefully at the end of this video you can see him in action.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qhbb_kadhafi-au-ritz_news

And here is the panorama
http://www.gillesvidal.com/rue89/kadhafi_ritz.htm

Hans

[Bernd]

Hi Hans,

thanks for your advice to Gilles.
It's very interesting to see himself working in the news video !!!

Best Bernd

[gillesvidal]

Thanks for your interest in my work!
Here the link with all panoramas (sorry : text and sounds only in french) : http://www.gillesvidal.com/kadhafi.htm

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

Gilles Vidal, my French could definitely be better, but your panos have no language barriers!

Very well made! Kept simple and functional. And then you have a link to Rue89.com which is running a story on Mr.Bean (Rowan Atkinson), which is known as "Nicolas Sarkozy" in France:

http://upload.hraunfjord.org/files/NicolasBean.jpg

Just look at that face, and compare it with the original:

http://upload.hraunfjord.org/files/MrBeanNicolas.jpg

Ok, joke aside, your work is very well done!

Are you using a monopod with a fisheye lens on the camera?

[gillesvidal]

For the comparison between Mister Bean and N. Sarkozy: really I don't know . But one of them makes me laugh, and the other not at all.

Yes I used monopod slightly amended, and always 5D + 10.5

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

For the comparison between Mister Bean and N. Sarkozy: really I don't know . But one of them makes me laugh, and the other not at all.

:lol:

Good answer!

[johnwilletts]

Pity about the exposure. You lose the subject. I've just asked my partner what the picture was about - she thought it was a shot of reporters and security guards.

I do wonder if this type of 'actuality' is a useful subject for panoramas when the majority of space is taken up with, what is essentially, background noise?

Regards,
John

[cheathamlane]

Hmmm... I think the 360° panorama provides a very useful insight to the entire scene.

Certainly, the reporters and cameras are not the "of interest" part of the image; what the cameramen are pointing at (Khaddafi) is the subject.

But, what the 360° view does is place it in context, and the background noise may be of as much interest years from now in a historical sense.

Most of the still, single images those cameramen produced will end up as 2"x3" sidebars to a story, where the context of the photo relies on a writer to produce. People reading that story and looking at that still image will have no feeling for the scene surrounding Khaddafi's visit; the 360° view with sound really amplifies it.

Now, as for people being able to pick Khaddafi's face out of a crowd... I guess it depends on where you're from and how much one cares about the politics.

[NewSpin360]

Gilles,

I really like that most of the people in the image are clear and un-blurred.

Just wondering what iso you had to shot the images in? Lots of noise I assumed 1600+?

Do you think I could achieve the same results with My 40d in 1600 iso?

I just got it! I know what the images would look like with my 350d. LOL

Thanks Mike

[Scott Witte]

Pity about the exposure. You lose the subject. I've just asked my partner what the picture was about - she thought it was a shot of reporters and security guards.

John,

I understand what you mean but I must respectfully disagree -- in this case. I would have brightened Khaddafi up a bit myself so attention would go to him. That may have helped the news angle. But consider your partner's response to the existing image and, maybe, that is the point, at least artistically. What is all this hoopla about. Maybe the the media circus is the point more than the man. Think about it.

Beyond that I would just echo Patrick. All the other media captured yet another shot of a man getting out of a car. Put aside the event. That is all he is doing. It has been done a billion times with all flavors of politicians, world leaders etc.

In Photo Journalsim school they tought us that if you shoot an image you have seen thousands of time before, the same image everyone else is getting, you have failed. These images are really only used to attract attention and break up gray copy. But Gilles' VR? That told me so much more. Put the "event" into context. Personally I think it is great. but of course not everyone will see it in the same way.

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

Personally I think it is great. but of course not everyone will see it in the same way.

If I happened to be "everyone"... I can guarantee that everyone would indeed see it your way!