Virginia Photographer

Washington Dulles international Airport (IAD) has a new people mover system called the AeroTrain.  The system utilizes 29 Mitsubishi Crystal Movers.  Last week we photographed the AeroTrains for Mitsubishi.  The Aerotrain is a welcome addition to Dulles Airport.  As a photographer I travel frequently with lots of heavy bags of camera gear, so I appreciate riding on a shuttle train instead of walking.

Unfortunately, there was still too much snow on the ground to do any outdoor photography.  It was a real rush to get the trains lined up in the maitenance facility before they went into service for the day.  I hope to go back and shoot the trains in motion with some planes in the background.  I love doing this kind of industrial photography of planes, trains and automobiles; most photographers like big shiny stuff that moves fast.

Nothing Fancy; that’s us on the way out to dinner.  Lynne, Michael, Carson (7), Barrett (9).

I took the picture, on a timer. ..lighting was set for one dude.

I’m frequently asked to create architectural and real estate virtual tours .  These are a very interesting form of architectural photography. I’ve been generating these virtual tours for the Virginia real estate  industry since the mid 90′s.  My  proprietary process for creating virtual tours is complicated, but it yields a very high quality virtual tour.  Each VR tour image starts with 25 fisheye exposures which are processed through a series of 5 programs to generate a single virtual tour image.  Once merged and stitched the resulting 360 degree panoramic image can be displayed in a number of  ways: Quicktime VR, IPIX, Flash and Java are the most popular.  IPIX virtual tours are used by many real estate companies.  Below is a Quicktime VR version of the above flat image. This image is from a Virginia virtual tour  of a model home done recently for a Virginia home builder.