Turn a One-Minute Walkaround into a 3d Model

There are two parts to this. The first part is to turn your circular path into an oval and make sure you are back far enough to keep the full height of what you want to capture in frame (everything in red). The second part is to follow up with more circular shots of areas you want to emphasize, like the tree marked in purple or the smaller trees marked in yellow.

It's normal for other trees, structures, and vehicles that turn up in your video. As long as the objects are thin (like other trees) or smaller, there shouldn't be a problem. As long as you don't have constant long breaks, where the tree is completely obscured, you should be alright.

Below is a sample path walked to create the sample pruning of the White Oak (large tree in red) on the home page. The video path went around a number of trees (dots), a parking structure, and a bucket truck (both rectangles), Because there were no leaves on the trees and I had a clean walking area, I was able to get an easy capture following the line shown below.

There are two ways to do this:

1. If you want to use videos, include an object with high contrast and known dimensions in your walkaround (a garbage can or a pole saw pole) and give us the width, height, or length of the object. We can use this to calibrate the model.
   

2. Instead of videos, take a series of overlapping photos. You need to have at least 60 clear photos, evenly spaced apart (one photo for every one or two steps). You also need to make sure your location permissions are enabled for your cellphone camera app, so that GPS information can be included with each picture.

In this case you will want to make a full ellipse, where half of the ellipse is focused on the tree line and the other half is focused on the house.

The secret to succeeding in this scenario is overlap. You will need to do multiple passes and make sure that each pass overlaps with the one before it.

Below is an example of how you might set the first frame for seven passes, starting at the top of the tree and slowly working your way down to the base. You probably won't need this made takes for a model, but it is best to err on the side of more overlap (and more takes). If there is too little, we won't be able to process the model.