Comments on: Baldachin by Night II

By: habi

habi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:17:41 +0000

hi harry,
sorry, your comment got caught into the moderation-queue. thanks for the kind comment! i hope i’ll soon be able to stitch it really big :)

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:17:31 +0000

Hi Habi,

great panos, especially the 21:35-21:45. Apart from the immaculate technical implementation, the atmoshphere of the pano is fantastic.

Harry

By: habi

habi — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:03:27 +0000

i’ve seen it, it looks really nice!

By: rouge

rouge — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:19:21 +0000

@habi: I would absolutely like to but unfortunately I changed my design yesterday :-(

By: habi

habi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:52:18 +0000

@peter: as i’ve said, hugin has developed quite a bit, the image shown above is actually composed from 123 images, 41 for each exposure. the images are aligned in a 4 * 11 grid ( * 3 for each exposure…). oh, and autostitch is not available on the mac (at least not for free, it’s built in into calico, which costs 40 $).
@rouge: thanks! now you’ve got a new image you can use as a background for your blog :)

By: rouge

rouge — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:52:41 +0000

Great Pictures!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:54:28 +0000

Well the technology of hugin is perfect, but the handling ist much more difficult then autostitch and it is slower. An advantage is, that you get the single picks and can select the masks yourself with photoshop. Autostitch seems to me having performance if you are stitchting in two dimensions as in this example.

By: habi

habi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:35:19 +0000

@bastian: thanks for the compliments. especially from you, from someone who shoots extremely good pictures, this is appreciated. i’m still struggling a bit with the fully manual mode of the zenitar-lens, so the second panorama might not be ideally exposed that’s why it’s grainy. and additionally, my camera is sat to auto-ISO at the moment… the first one is fused so you get the ideal pixels from each exposure, thus less grainy.
@peter: thank you also! autostitch is not available for os x, and hugin is much more powerful for what i use it. if you’ve not used hugin for a long time you should give the beta-version a try, it has come a long way. and if you’re interested in the insides of enblend/enfuse, you should watch the technology talk about enblend/enfuse by its main programmer, andrew mihal.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:29:00 +0000

Great shots! Thanks for pointing me to this enblend enfuse stuff. I was hugin using before but most of my panos are made with autostitch. See some of the on my flickr account.

By: Bastian

Bastian — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:35:52 +0000

your panos are stunning! wait a second that i can close my mouth ;)

i like the second (darker) pano but it’s a bit grainy especially when you keep your eye at the dark ground. did you use a higher ISO in the second pano?