Moses (beta)

Description

I recently purchased a 24 megapixel Sony Alpha 5100. It is a massive leap in terms of resolution and much lighter than the last DSLR I had been using. I also purchased several adapters and various lenses like the Jupiter 3, the Industar and a Helios. While they are Soviet-era glass, they have proven to be ever bit as good as any Zeiss glass and far more affordable. They are manual focus only, which is why this Moses is currently a beta. I set up my camera on a tripod, focused and slowly and thoughtfully took over 300+ photos over two days with deeply overcast skies. The display photo was taken a short time afterwards as the skies broke. My method of choice is to now run all the RAW photos through Photomatix Pro to create HDR photos, but at a sensible and conservative level without being garish. I then double check the results from photo to photo to make sure they're all evenly lit and exposed to improve my chances of success with Photoscan Pro. I then place all the resulting Photomatix Pro TIFs into a folder, fire up Photoscan Pro and open the folder and use the low setting to begin creating the model. Once I have a sparse cloud, I adjust the bounding box to exclude the extraneous surrounding material from Moses and go on to create the dense cloud and finally the mesh. At this point, even though I've used the low setting, the model is sufficiently detailed that I could choose to go on with the final texture stage, but for this instance I wanted to go all out. I created masks…