(the abandoned donut shop has quite a history)
I also saw and heard a woodpecker: local woodpecker.
wildlife and environs
Tag: panorama
Hugin comes fully of age
I made the Generic Vancouver Seawall Panorama today using all of Hugin‘s defaults, and in the words of Eric Morecambe, “You can’t see the join!”. You used to have to play with lots of settings – now it just gets it right. Bravo!
291 bridge over the Missouri, La Benite park
disney work
I tried to get more of a ‘joiner’ effect, but Hugin’s just too good at stitching. Still, it’s angular enough for the Disney Opera House. The original is approximately 90 megapixels.
Bluffer’s Park notes
Sights: water, bluffs, rock, birds, blue sky.
Sounds: water, redwing blackbirds, grackles, geese, falling limestone.
Smells: the lighting of BBQs.
CleVR: half-bright
CleVR does allow you to produce animated panoramas with no user input, but it has its flaws. The biggest is that, even though it’s written in Java, it only works properly under Windows.
Here’s a panorama I made earlier: A boring day at Kennedy Commons.
Panamatic
I bought a Panamatic on Saturday at Henry’s. It’s a very simple panorama mount, with a large level, and fixed 30° click stops.
It works extremely well, and is quick to set up. The image below (larger image if you follow the link) was taken with my Cybershot P100, and stitched with hugin:
I’ve highlighted the overlap between the images with a bright blue background, and only cropped the image for width. The Panamatic gives very even and level results.
There are a couple of downsides: you can’t correct for lens nodal point location (thus giving woozy effects if you used it for an animated cylindrical panorama), and the click stops are fixed at 30°, so you had better use a near standard lens. Apart from that, it seems pretty well made, and easily worth $40 for hassle-reduction alone.
joiner panorama: OCAD
Kansas City by night
points you see, points you don’t
So I’m busy doing windfarm photomontages in hugin. Trouble is, the site I’m working on is in the prairies, so here’s some ASCII art of what I’m seeing:
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This, as you might guess, is just a little short of control points for stitching images. I find myself scrabbling for clods of earth, interesting blades of grass, and what looks worryingly like roadkill by the side of the range roads to use as common points of interest.
So far, though, most of the panoramas have come out looking pretty good. But then, I am 1337 VV1NDF4R^^ D3516N0R …
Yay! Even better panoramas with enblend
(Click the image to see the original in its full 1.1MB, 7264 × 992 glory.)
I’ve been working with Hugin for a while, but found its colour matching when stitching less than perfect. I just built and tried enblend, which promises much better quality stitching — at the cost of some serious CPU usage.
The above is 8 images, taken when standing at the near the bridge over the Ottawa River. It was handheld, with just a basic Nikon 2MP digicam in auto-everything mode. Can you see the joins?
Hugin just got a load easier to build on Gentoo. You no longer have to jump through hoops of tweaking source to get things to compile. I like the package a lot, and I look forward to using it with my Kaidan panoramic tripod head.
Happy Winter Solstice
Nothing celebrates the winter solstice better than a panoramic picture of a suburban street in Scarborough:
Taken with the remarkable Super Wide Heliar 15mm lens, and stitched using hugin. In real life, the street’s pretty straight — if anything, it curves slightly towards you.
