kepo-ing Zz85

We standed in a circle around the camera and hand-held shots were snapped quickly at Cameron. It would be a great panoramic photo but lets see how we would create it.

1. Cannon PhotoStitch.
You are likely to come across it if you have cannon product as it usually bundled together. Assuming you used the panoramic feature on your cannon camera carefully, this program would be really simple to use. Arrange your photos, out come the pararoma stitched. However, without enough overlapping parts, PhotoStich wouldn’t work for me in this case.

2. Hugin.
The Free/Open source, Cross-plateform GUI tools would give you lots of options and features to play around with. Using Autopano would detect Control Points and auto autooptimise, Calculate FOV (Field of View) , Optimal size and get your stitch. Really powerful and all sorts switches you can change so go ahead to ??, read the tutorials, try out and have fun. Too bad for me again, some photos could not stitch at all because there werent any overlapping parts. Sometimes all the control points were on the scenery, distorting the faces. Have to try something else.

3. Adobe PhotoShop.
Photoshop would be all you need if you know how to use and want all the control. I seem to read Photoshop CS can do merging of photos automatically but without CS installed I cant try out. There is lots of articles but this link seems to does what I need - in short- adjusting, adding mask, brushing, crop and get your stitch. Since all other methods failed, this would have to work for me. Tata, something is out after sometime.

4. Showcasing the paranoia.
The best way would be to place it online, and let java, flash, or javascript technologies do the job. For me to test out quickly, I uploaded to Gallery 2 beta, with its panoramic module- we now can enjoy the scene with its java applet. If you are using dhtml, dun forget to try this link.

Pararomics is old field of photography that fascinates me even though I have 0 experience. Those all around views from the photos NASA take from MARS by the rover “Spirit”, MOON is so nice. I will forget about stereography and videography for now…