Various Niagara Falls panoramas
Niagara Falls panorama from Maid of the Mist (6 Photos) (cropped)
Originally uploaded by marcn.
See the other panoramic shots of Niagara Falls and others in my
Panorama Photos photo set on flickr.com.
The free (as in beer), Windows-only app autostitch does an excellent job stitching the photos together. Autostitch works great using the wine emulator on Linux (Ubuntu/Breezy)
September 27th, 2005 at 9:27 am
I enjoy photo stitched panoramas. Here are a few I’ve done in the past: Cambridge, UK, Ogunquit, ME, our house in autumn. For a free app, autostitch did a good job for you, and under Wine no less!
September 27th, 2005 at 10:04 am
So, what did you use? They came out nicely.
-marc
September 27th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
Holly Cow Batman… Who’s that in the water…
Mark
September 29th, 2005 at 8:33 am
I just used the Canon’s stitching tools that came with the camera, a first gen digital ELPH. I’ve tried it once or twice with my more recent Nikon, but frankly haven’t had much recent use for photo stitching.
Lately I’ve been toying with other effects. For instance, a color Timothy in a black and white world. That was fun to do. Next time I’d like to make the background sepia so that it stands out a bit more.
Actually it’s been a couple of years since I used the GIMP, the Linux lover’s Photoshop. I used to be fairly good at it but it made some easy things difficult: cropping with an aspect ratio, white balancing, etc. I really should see what’s been enhanced lately. If nothing else, the GIMP would give me an excuse to brush up on my rusty Scheme skills.
September 29th, 2005 at 11:00 am
A couple of other panaormas using autostitch:
My office in 270 degrees
Autumnal Soccer Field (2004)
They look best if you click on ‘All Sizes’ and look at the original size photos.
October 7th, 2005 at 7:56 am
I too use Autostitch with WINE on Ubuntu and was surprised to see it work so well. It’s nice that UBC made the app available while they try to sell a commercial license. The idea that it can take separate panorama pieces and sort them is pretty cool.
To reduce some of the distortion in autostitched photos I set the lens on my camera to about 50mm (it’s a Nikon 3100 “point and shoot”). It’s the point where you get the widest angle with any “fisheye” effect.
BTW, here’s a link to find autostitched photos on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/autostitch/
Also a favorite autostitched photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=33248291&size=m
June 7th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
I’ve used hugin before - doesn’t require WINE *not that anything’s wrong with WINE*
Back in ‘98 we use to make immersive tours using java & Live.somethingnother - your post just reminded me that I ought to see if that will run under WINE.