Photogrammetry – Reflective Blog Post

I learned a lot from trying to model my object than when just viewing my object in an exhibition. When I first looked at my object, which is the grain storehouse, I really did not notice much detail and was just looking at it aesthetically. When it came time to taking the pictures, there was a lot more that my group had to account for. The first thing I noticed was the the legs of it were not even, and so when it was displayed there were a few pieces of paper under one of the legs to make it all level. So right away I was thinking that we have to make sure we get that detail into our photos for when we model it.

Another thing that I had to pay a lot more attention to when I was modeling it was the importance of lighting. Obviously I knew that lighting was important beforehand, but to have to find the optimal spots to place the lights to minimize shadows was a little trickly with our grain storehouse. We also had to figure out how we would capture the inside of the storehouse since it has kind of like a window opening which was where the grain would be stored, which casted a lot of shadow on the inside. We figured that having that much shadow on the inside would be troublesome. To account for this we used the flash of our camera to get the inside of it, which we still have yet to model and we will have to figure out how that will work.

Overall, there is a lot more detail that has to go into photogrammetry compared to simply viewing it in an exhibition, but I really enjoyed examining our object and thinking ahead to what the modeling process will look like. I definitely will be looking for more details in exhibits because I think it makes looking at pieces more enjoyable and thought-provoking to think about their story in that way.