PanoTools NG:
Re: 3 rows -- 8 images each -- what's the easy way?
Ken Warner 2008-Nov-25 13:32:44
That's pretty good! I know what you mean about carrying
extra ounces in the pack. I walk around up here in Mammoth.
Everything is uphill both ways :-) Thanks for the tip
about that GIMP plugin. No way I can afford Photoshop...
Atanas Minev wrote:
> 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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