Cathedral Square Panorama Little Planet

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I thought in honor of Hugin 2015 being released last month, that I would share a Little Planet I did of the cathedral and square in my town of Mobile, AL. This was about 35 images stitched together in Hugin.

I had to manually rebuild the nadir (and remove the tripod legs) from outtake images and Resynthesizer in GIMP.

(Sorry about the watermark, it was literally one of the only images I ever tried it on, and I am too lazy to go hunt down the original I’ve actually updated the image on Flickr to remove the watermark).

Thought it looked a bit boring just looking at the thumbnail, but viewing bigger - it’s full of really cool little details. This would make a cool poster! :smile:

Did you use a panorama head or just a regular tripod/head?

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Just a regular tripod head, and relied on Hugin to manage the stitching. Luckily didn’t have anything in the near-field to cause nasty parallax errors, so it worked out ok in the end. That’s actually my wife and daughter at 12:00… :slight_smile:

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Had no ideal you lived in LA Pat; I live in MA. lol

Maybe one day, if I ever find myself in Mobile, I’ll try to look you up. Nice Mini Planet/Micro World. too. :slight_smile:

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MA! One behind LA (alphabetically)! :smiley: Whereabouts are you? I’ll actually be up in Providence, RI in November.

If you’re ever down in the South, drop me a line!

Prattville (near Montgomery). :slight_smile:

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Hah! You shouldn’t have mentioned you were so close, now I know who to bug when we try to hold a photo/imaging workshop down here on the gulf coast… :smiley: :smiley:

Only if you pay for the gas and lunch (again, in between jobs right now; broke I am). lolol

Didn’t know you had workshops; sounds fun. I’m still just an amateur. Not sure if anyone at RetouchPRO contacted you yet, but I told Doug about you since he wanted to know folks who were experts in GIMP. Maybe he will contact you for an online workshop which he has at RetouchPRO often. :smile:

That’s a really cool effect. I’ve played with it a while ago myself using hugin and gimp. I hope you don’t mind me posting some of my results:

NEX6_0002_3121-3139 by Miran Amon, on Flickr

NEX6_0002_3291-3309 by Miran Amon, on Flickr

NEX6_0002_3777-3800 by Miran Amon, on Flickr

Last one is even handheld.

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These are wonderful, thank you for sharing them!

Did you use a pano-head on a tripod to shoot the first two? I recently hacked one together from two pieces of aluminum bar, and it really made things easier in post. It wasn’t even that accurate. It did make capturing a lot faster and easier too, though. I could easily take my time rotating around the (almost?) nodal point of the lens. Here’s one I did using the contraption for the first time:

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That one is awesome! I saw it on flickr already. :smile:

I don’t have a pano head, just a normal ball head. Yes, I’m sure using proper equipment must make your life much easier in post. My first example was a total pain to fix the stitching errors with all those tiles on the ground and you can see if you look close I eventually gave up and left a few weird and unconnected edges.

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This is almost my entire little planet experience in one sentence… :smiley:

USS Alabama, I presume?

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Yes, it sure is (Hull BB-60)! She’s a quaint old ship…

Mind if I link the picture in /r/WarshipPorn (yes, there is such a subreddit)?

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Not even a little bit. :slight_smile: Heck, if you’re interested in warship images, I’ll grab more when I’m out crawling around on something modern… :wink:

There’s also this view (same ship):
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I personally like the previous one better, but now there’s options…

Posted both. Now let’s see if I break my link karma record with any of these :slight_smile:

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I’ve been shooting panoramas for years, I’ll be doing a workshop on that some day, if you have any questions feel free to ask, but please write my @name so I don’t need to read the whole conversation ;]

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@Morgan_Hardwood may even be doing a workshop in London for PIXLS/LGM in the spring, right? Yeah? Aren’t you? :slight_smile:

Si senor. Post must be at least 20 characters. But quality not quantity, eh?