Thanks For The Marching Orders
Our week in Arizona is done. Spent much of the week hiking near beautiful Sedona -- and eating enough to more than make up for the increased exercise. Off-camera flash took the week off in favor of ultra-minimal gear, family snapshots and trying my hand at some stitched wide-angle panoramas.
Still working on getting the sky smoothed out. My efforts at fixing the tonal banding gave me some serious artifacts on the first go-round.
Today, we are heading back to the East Coast to get back to work and reacquaint ourselves with humidity. I'll be back to a more normal posting and comment moderation schedule on Monday. Thanks for your patience this past week.
And again, thanks for the questions and suggestions you sent in. I will be paying close attention to them in the coming weeks.
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by David, at 12:00 AM.
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There's a pretty awesome application called Autostitch that can do most of the hard work of making a panoramic.
You may want to try Autostitch (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html). It's absolutely fantastic and will automate the stitching process for you and make a fantastic job of it.
Looks like you had a ball though :)
I attended David's seminar in Phoenix. It was great. I'm glad to learn that you enjoyed Sedona. I'm the guy who recommended Montezuma's castle and hope you found it interesting if you had the chance to visit. Best wishes for a safe trip home.
I'm sure you saw this already, and this it totally unrelated to this post, but I saw that Professor Kobre mentioned you and linked to your website from the latest edition of his Photojournalism book. Congrats!
did you eat at Savannah's Prime? When I escaped from Baltimore to Phoenix for a week we had one the best meals I can ever remember having. Hmm, I should head out there again.
Photo Merge in Photoshop CS3 is much improved from previous versions of PS and you should get good results with blending in your sky. Also you can use RAW files in your merged image.
Autostitch is a great tool, if you can accept its quality. Imho it supports only jpeg and ofcourse lags 16bit support. I think it also needs a quite big overlap on images compared to other panorama stitchers.
I've been using Photoshop CS3 photomerge for a little time now. It makes quite good panoramas, supports 16bit tiff and doesn't need so much overlap. I made some examples of photomerge vs. autostitch: autostitch vs. photomerge and autostitch vs. photomerge 100% crop. The lower ones are made with photomerge.
Btw. PTgui seems to be a good stitcher also.
I see that there are many photo stitching apps being mentioned here. One that I found especially good was the one built into Photoshop CS3. File->Automate->Photomerge.
Before that, I had used Canon's PhotoStitch which did a surprisingly good job. But Photomerge can handle the seams more gracefully.
I'm planning a backpacking trip to Colorado and I was hoping you could detail what "ultra minimalist" includes in your gear bag when you go hiking. I don't need brands or anything, just what you take and what you leave out.
Panoramatools really is the best stich program there is. With poweful gui (like PTGui) it is unbeatable.
Photo-stitching apps abound! My husband is an avid Panoramic shooter. (I'm the off-camera flash nut - people shooter) and he uses exclusively AutoPanoPro for all his stuff. It is so easy and the gui is the best I've seen! Check out IAPP too.. International Association of Panoramic Photographers (loosely affliated with the PPA)... a great bunch of folks who like LOOONNNGGG photographs -- (- hey! we just missed u - we were in Sedona on the end of Feb and caught some great snow shots up towards Flagstaff!)
Just a quick note about Autostitch... the technology is fantastic. The problem is, the program you download from the website is just a demo program to show what it can do.
If you want the technology of Autostitch (which is awesome) but more versatility, take a look at the products that license the Autostitch technology (listed on the Autostitch website). AutoPanoPro happens to be one of them... so essentially AutoPanoPro's stitching and blending technology = Autostitch
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