panoramas

[marshallh]

Simple 8-shot rectilinear
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2678/finallores.jpg


360 44-shot, 421 control points
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2103/decklores.jpg

not perfect but it's 2:33am and I need bed



if anyone is interested in the original file and a 360-viewer program, let me know. you will shit bricks



edit: playing with mapping along a sphere and high FOV

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2189/spherewidesm.jpg
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1796/deckball.jpg

[Macky]

I always suck at panoramas. I can never get everything lined up no matter how hard I try. Those look great! I usually never go past 3 shots stitched together.

[ChargerX3]

Whoa! last one is trippy. Trying to find out where you shot from. Shoot me the program maybe ill get into panoramas more.

[marshallh]

The program is called Hugin, and it's free. Be prepared to spend some time banging your head though. The stitching is supposed to be automatic but it's never worked at all for me, I just have to do it by hand.

[Alan92RTTT]

Its 10 images just short of 360 degrees
http://mi3si.org/alaska/040623/images/P6233091_pan.JPG

click here for full size http://mi3si.org/alaska/040623/images/P6233091_pan.JPG

[ChargerX3]

The program is called Hugin, and it's free. Be prepared to spend some time banging your head though. The stitching is supposed to be automatic but it's never worked at all for me, I just have to do it by hand.

That doesnt make me feel any better. Free hand stuff always sucks.


Its 10 images just short of 360 degrees
http://mi3si.org/alaska/040623/images/P6233091_pan.JPG

click here for full size http://mi3si.org/alaska/040623/images/P6233091_pan.JPG

Looks like you forgot the tops of the mountains. Also if that is 360* then that mountain range would have engulfed you. Did you mean 180*?

[Alan92RTTT]

IIRC I would have needed 2-3 more shots to get to 360. It probably covers about a 300 degree arc. My wife was at about the 200 degree point.

[Macky]

this is the best Ive done in recent time, and you can still tell the cloth rafters up top arent even properly aligned. :D

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a268/evomacky/BMS_PANO1.jpg

[marshallh]

What I've found is the wider angle lens you use, the easier it is.

Load up the images in Hugin, go to Align and start adding control points between each image. I usually add points around 7-8 distinguising features across each pair (edge of a leaf, corner of a board, etc)

[terrets]

COool! Thanks for letting us know about this program :)

[Macky]

What I've found is the wider angle lens you use, the easier it is.

Load up the images in Hugin, go to Align and start adding control points between each image. I usually add points around 7-8 distinguising features across each pair (edge of a leaf, corner of a board, etc)

it is up to a point. usually wide angle lenses have more vertical distortion at the sides, and it makes it harder for it to stitch them as most software need vertical references to align them correctly.

[Alan92RTTT]

My pan hints:
1) use a lens that keeps things basically vertical. As Macky said distortion at the edges messes things up)
2) Turn on the grid lines on your eye piece if you have that option. Helps keeping you vertical.
3) Pan so you overlap about 1/4 to 1/3 your image on each shot. The more you overlap the easier it is on the software.
4) Try to keep moving things out of the edges.

[marshallh]

Yeah, the distortion thing applies if you're using traditional stitching software.

However Hugin will actually read the lens settings from the EXIF data in your JPEGs and correct any distortion, before it even stitches them. Since I have a wide converter on my A590IS, I multiply the focal length by 0.7x and enter that.

This is necessary because if you want a different mapping for the final image, you would need correct it anyway.

In fact ideally, you would use a fisheye lens, panorama tripod, with your camera mounted vertically, and you could get an entire 360 degree view including the sky and ground, in only 2 shots.


Here is another mapping - again distortion is corrected on each image with the lens settings as it's mapped to its final position.


http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/315/deck4fusedsm.jpg

[terrets]

Yay fisheye effect :D

[Dark-Hawk]

This is a collection of a handful of my pano's, unfortunately imageshack has lost my favorite one and I have no idea if I still have it on my HDD :(. Each one has been shot by hand all were taken with a Rebel XT and save for the first one all were taken with a Canon 28-135mm IS USM lens. The most shots to construct one I believe was approximately 7 or 8 images, the fewest being two. With that said, here are a few:

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5438/panoramaresize.jpg

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/1737/panomr8.jpg

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/427/img0155wl5.jpg

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/6848/hdrpanomo0.jpg

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/1686/panoramicnewplacefl9.jpg

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/5817/img8039oq6.jpg

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1373/panoramicbk8.jpg

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/5056/panoramic2by2.jpg

[terrets]

Cool photos :) I really like the 4th one and the cemetery.

[Dark-Hawk]

Thanks, I meant to note that the 4th one was [obviously] an HDR. It was a composite of 7 shots for the first frame, and 7 shots for the second.

[SupraMKIII]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4260299233_e098ea98e8_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3653/3675732928_8a515267ab.jpg

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x198/Supra_MKIII/3S/Pano1copy.png

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x198/Supra_MKIII/3S/Untitled_Panorama1copy.png

Can't find any of the others I've done :(

[terrets]

oooooohh :)

[marshallh]

got out to the park and took some shots...

57 images, 657 control points. yuck

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/281/annespheresm.jpg