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 Iāve actually updated the image on Flickr to remove the watermark).
Thought it looked a bit boring just looking at the thumbnail, but viewing bigger - itās full of really cool little details. This would make a cool poster!
Did you use a panorama head or just a regular tripod/head?
Just a regular tripod head, and relied on Hugin to manage the stitching. Luckily didnāt have anything in the near-field to cause nasty parallax errors, so it worked out ok in the end. Thatās actually my wife and daughter at 12:00ā¦
Hah! You shouldnāt 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 coastā¦
Only if you pay for the gas and lunch (again, in between jobs right now; broke I am). lolol
Didnāt know you had workshops; sounds fun. Iām 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.
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 wasnāt 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. Hereās one I did using the contraption for the first time:
I donāt have a pano head, just a normal ball head. Yes, Iām 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.
Iāve been shooting panoramas for years, Iāll be doing a workshop on that some day, if you have any questions feel free to ask, but please write my @name so I donāt need to read the whole conversation ;]
Whereabouts are you? Iāll actually be up in Providence, RI in November.
