PanoTools NG:
Re: 3 rows -- 8 images each -- what's the easy way?
Atanas Minev 2008-Nov-25 10:28:19
Let me share my ultralow budget panorama making technique :)
Example:
http://pan0.net/pano/oj6g4
It's far from perfect, but it didn't much time to make either.
Equipment used:
Panasonic FZ8 with 18mm lens adapter
No tripod used (when you ride bike in the mountain and the trip is
long and the sun is hot every gram in your backpack seriously counts).
Pictures are shot with handheld camera.
Camera settings:
auto-bracketing - 3 shots per picture, auto exposure, auto focus
Shoot with sufficient overlap between pictures and try to move camera
between shots as little as possible. The objects here are distant so
there are almost no parallax errors.
Time to take this panorama:
a little more than 5 minutes
Software used:
Hugin, Autopano SIFT 2.3, QTFPSGUI, DOS Utilities for Panoramas, GIMP,
Resynthesizer plugin for GIMP
Computer:
HP Compaq laptop, Centrino 2GHz, 1GB RAM
Workflow:
Import pictures in Hugin, set lens parameters, set anchor image (this
is important - choose one from the middle row), play with optimizer
settings, reoptimize, remove bad control points, reoptimize again if
nessesary. When you get used it's not a long work and if you shot your
pictures properly rarely you must provide manual control points and
manual intervention in the process is minimal.
1. Stitch to a HDR image
2. Use QTFPSGUI to tonemap the HDR.
3. Use DOSUp to convert equirectangular to cubefaces
4. Post-process panorama errors in GIMP. Resynthesizer plugin is
particularly interesting for generating textures for problematic
zenith and nadir.
5. DOSUp - convert back to equirectangular
6. Do some final color finishing touches in GIMP
Voila, you have an immersive panorama :)
As a proof of concept I'm planning to shoot a panorama with a cheap cellphone.
I'm not trying to convince anyone that serious equipment is not
nessesary, just to show that panorama photography can be accessible to
anyone who wants to study it :)
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