Is there a way to feed Hugin several pictures (that are not shot from left to right) in order to obtain a complete picture of a mountain or landscape?
Since I don’t know the technical term, I will try to explain.
Let’s say I divide a mountain in four (4) pictures because the lens being used is not too wide, so the complete scene does not fit in one single photo.
Picture 1 is what I consider the upper left
Picture 2 is upper right
Picture 3 is lower left
Picture 4 is lower right
How can I get Hugin to generate a 4:3 image out of those 4 pictures that are also 4:3?
I have managed to obtain panoramas out of sequential pictures taken from left to right, but for photos that are not one after the other, I don’t know where to start.
It should be possible. It did a few grid panoramas but I had trouble when I was using wide lens to cover an ultrawide scene (18 mm asp-c lens), I couldn’t align the picture well enough (likely my pictures were not photographed properly, I shot them handheld). I had the most success in the short telephoto range (~100 mm).
Depending on the overlap of the images it may take some manual work and using various expert view tasks
Do not start with importing the images or using the Assistant…
First you have to change hugin to expert UI. After that use Photos tab to “add images”. Switch to control point tab and manually set about 20 control points for each image pair. Switch back to standard UI and do a first alignment and check in Layout if the images are arranged correctly.
If yes, hugin should be able to use CPfind (prealigned) in expert photos tab to add more control points. If not, add more manual control points until the layout is correct.
This may take some time and you will have learned the golden panorama rule: left to right, bottom to top and always at least 25% overlap between the images.
no meed to go that far, three to six per image pair is enough. just try to spread the control points around, so it’s easier for the machine solver to figure out the positions and lens parameters.
This should work out of the box if there is enough overlap.
Check your settings: In Preferences, Control points detectors, the default cp detector setting should contain the --multirow switch. (For the current 2024.0 beta 1 this is default, but all older version should contain this switch. The check is only needed once, just in case. It is normally the default setting.)
Load images
The run the assistant with “Align”
Switch to crop setting and adjust your crop to your desired aspect ratio. Either adjust it with the mouse or use the aspect ratio dialog to select 4:3 exact.
