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post  The view from my window.

This afternoon I experimented with my first effort at photo stitching, using a program called Hugin to piece together the view from my window. Click for greater detail.

The view from my window

As you can see, it's hardly a perfect job. But I think it fits together well enough. The most obvious flaw seems to be the shift in color that splits St. Vibiania's in half. I'm a long way from a photo expert, but I suspect that's caused by the automatic adjustments my camera makes as it saves images in jpg format. There's probably some easy way to avoid that (shooting all of the photographs in a manually selected adjustment scheme, or RAW format), but I'll leave figuring that out for another day. But if you are an expert, or if I'm totally off base, please feel free to chide away. I'm eager to learn.

Comments

andy on 2008.06.15
That looks great man!! I've always wanted to mess with landscape photos. The Death Star remains intimidating in broad daylight! It sounds like you are getting to the bottom of it. I shoot in Kelvin, and daylight is around 5800, varying a little from camera to camera. You could probably set the shutter speed to 400-500 since there isn't a lot of motion going on and see how it looks. I can bring over my 2.8 lens someday and we can test it out.
palewire on 2008.06.15
Hmm. Okay. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the tips.
peter on 2009.04.05
Your intuition is correct. The camera’s autoadjustments are messing up the stitch, as the exposures are slightly different from photo to photo. To set up your photos for the stitch properly, you can certainly use JPEG, just set a manual white balance, and set a manual exposure. In other words, you’re looking to keep your settings exactly the same from picture to picture so there is no weird change in exposure or color balance.
peter on 2009.04.05
Jesus. Should check time stamps. I’m about a year late for those comments.

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