Digital Panoramas

I have been experimenting with digital photograph panoramas, and I thought
you may be interested to see the results:

A view of the Forth Rail and Road Bridge from North Queensferry:

http://qurl.com/2vvf3c

A View from the summit of Norman's Law looking across the Firth of Tay:

http://qurl.com/8fm78c

and a view across Loch Lednock from a recent cycle trip from Invergeldie
tothe head of the loch:

http://qurl.com/h1aw20

One thing which I must add was these panorama's were created automatically
by using autopanosift, http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/
and Hugin, http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

A tutorial for this can be seen here:

http://rbpark.ath.cx/index.cgi?page=tutorial-a

Regards

--
Brian

Yep, very nice pics, well made! Another good panorama maker is
ArcSoft Panorama Maker 3.

Takes the hard work out of it... ;-)

Michael S

Brian said:

One thing which I must add was these panorama's were created automatically
by using autopanosift, http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/
and Hugin, http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Good bits of software aren't they? Did you use enblend too?
This is one I stitched together from 26 photos taken on Fairfield.
(filesize 27Kb)
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/panoramacroppedsmall.jpg

I think it needs the exposure balancing between the two rows of photos
though.

John Armstrong <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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This is one I stitched together from 26 photos taken on Fairfield.
(filesize 27Kb)
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/panoramacroppedsmall.jpg

Good work!

Quoted message said:

I think it needs the exposure balancing between the two rows of photos
though.

Doesn't look too bad to me. Certainly not disastrous anyway. But it
could be fixed pretty darn easily in photoshop - literally hust a 2
minute job would sort it.

Michael S

Michael S said:

John Armstrong <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

This is one I stitched together from 26 photos taken on Fairfield.
(filesize 27Kb)
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/panoramacroppedsmall.jpg

Good work!

Quoted message said:

I think it needs the exposure balancing between the two rows of photos
though.

Doesn't look too bad to me. Certainly not disastrous anyway. But it
could be fixed pretty darn easily in photoshop - literally hust a 2
minute job would sort it.

My old computer is struggling with this a bit - the full sized tif version
of the merged picture is over 400MB. The 26 photos are each 6M pixels. I
can get a good quality big printout off this, but framing it would be a
bugger :-) Might have another play when the computer next gets upgraded.
Might have a look using gimp on the linux machine too - thats a bit faster.

I keep falling in and out of love with Linux. GIMP is one of those Linux
programs I find it extremely hard to like. Very powerfully, don't get me
wrong. I think I'd probably need a good tutorial book, rather then any help
files form or web.

Just my view, probably blocked by the trees.

Jhimmy

Brian said:

John Armstrong said:

Good bits of software aren't they? Did you use enblend too?

Indeedy, used enblend! Magical software.

Especially considering the price.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

This is one I stitched together from 26 photos taken on Fairfield.
(filesize 27Kb)
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/panoramacroppedsmall.jpg

Looks nice! What is the full uncropped unresized image like?

Big!

That one was panorama4 on here:
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/fairfield/
The other two were taken on the same walk (I haven't got round to
stitching panorama3 together yet). Must put a proper website together
sometime.

There are actually a couple of misaligned bits on panorama4, the most
noticable (when you see the full size version anyway) is towards the left
hand end of the skyline (around high crag I think)

John Armstrong said:

Good bits of software aren't they? Did you use enblend too?

Indeedy, used enblend! Magical software.

Quoted message said:

This is one I stitched together from 26 photos taken on Fairfield.
(filesize 27Kb)
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/panoramacroppedsmall.jpg

Looks nice! What is the full uncropped unresized image like?

--
Brian

Jhimmy said:

I keep falling in and out of love with Linux. GIMP is one of those Linux
programs I find it extremely hard to like. Very powerfully, don't get me
wrong. I think I'd probably need a good tutorial book, rather then any help
files form or web.

Just my view, probably blocked by the trees.

Jhimmy

Jhimmy, I found this site very very helpful:

http://www.gimpguru.org/

Lots of good tutorials where you actually *do* something useful, like
sharpening a photo, red eye removal etc.

--
Brian

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Brian said:

John Armstrong said:

Good bits of software aren't they? Did you use enblend too?

Indeedy, used enblend! Magical software.

Especially considering the price.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

This is one I stitched together from 26 photos taken on Fairfield.
(filesize 27Kb)
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/panoramacroppedsmall.jpg

Looks nice! What is the full uncropped unresized image like?

Big!

That one was panorama4 on here:
http://www.ggrove.plus.com/fairfield/
The other two were taken on the same walk (I haven't got round to
stitching panorama3 together yet). Must put a proper website together
sometime.

There are actually a couple of misaligned bits on panorama4, the most
noticable (when you see the full size version anyway) is towards the left
hand end of the skyline (around high crag I think)

Do you have any 360º pano's from scottish hills so as I can evaluate your
stitching software for coruptions. My pano software creates many inacuries
(up to ± 3½º ) and I have needed to code an offset table to compensate, and
allow my hill finding script to work properly. see
http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/hillwalking/panoramas.htm

stuart