To kick off this process, we took images of the Woody doll outdoors with the intention of having more camera angles and thus more information to aid the software in developing a model. However, the complex background of the images made it impossible for the software to align them. It picked up on details of the tree branches or buildings and mixed them with the subject of the image. This outdoor shoot was done without a tripod resulting in blurry images, inconsistent angles, and lighting. These factors are crucial in bundle adjustment as the software needs multiple images and camera views to reconstruct the 2D into 3D.
We returned the next day to work with a lightbox and set Woody inside. The limitation of using a softbox is the degree of camera angles that we can shoot from. It was impossible to capture the undersides of the Woody doll as well as the very top of the doll. We chose a lightbox with a black background as parts of the toy were so reflective that details and edges would have melted into a white background. In our first attempt to process the outdoor images, one of the issues was the reflective head which we further powdered. During the second shoot, we did our best to take focused, stable images of the doll. In the hope of producing a great model, we accidentally overwhelmed the system by providing it with an excess of images from numerous angles. Yet the software showed that some sides of the doll were not sufficiently captured.
In the third shoot, we addressed the reflective parts of the doll and took extra precautions to capture all sides of Woody and get all the details. It was hard to powder the doll without destabilizing it, so we gently feathered it with baby powder or blew powder onto the doll. In hindsight, the powder transferred onto the background of the lightbox and caused interference in the second processing of images. Inconsistency in the zoom of the camera prevented the images from aligning properly. The last shoot required a clean slate, so the lightbox background was wiped down and felt tissue was layered over the lights to make them softer and enhance the detail in the images. This is the final set of images we used for developing the model.