In order to be certified as a Gigapan Trainer we require:
Volunteer to teach 2 classes a year - (contact clara@cmucreatelab.org for more details on teaching a class)
Mastery of the following concepts
All core concepts
- Basic camera menus and settings
- Exposure concepts: ISO, white Balance, aperture and shutter
- Setting up the Gigapan - batteries, level, parallax, Gigapan setup
- Shooting a panorama: framing, pausing and rewinding, 360, repeat last
- Stitch: loading images on computer, recommended file organization system, settings, cleaning-up/troubleshooting extra images, upload settings, export image, using upload software
- Website: browsing, annotations, comments, account settings and options
3 required advanced concepts
- Use "Last Panorama" to manually add images into a recent scene photographed + correctly replacing images in Stitch
- Night/low light Gigapanning
- Embedding
2 elective advanced concept
- Photoshop techniques
- Preparing an image for large scale printing
- Macro
- Education website
- Placement in Google Earth
- 3D / anaglyph
- Tour Feature
- Abstract - Gigapan in motion, Stitcher as quilting tool
- Invent a new way to using/manipulating the Gigapan
- Gigapan Magazine piece / reportage / storytelling
- Camera testing
- Timelapse gigapan
- Handheld gigapanning
Hands on experience - on Gigapan.com
15 well executed Gigapan images uploaded to the site - demonstrating above concepts
15 snapshots on other users Panoramas
10 comments - participating in or initiating a conversation