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My new thang

Posted: May 8th, 2008 | Author: amake | Filed under: Photography | 2 Comments »

I’ve been getting more and more into photography lately, in that half-assed way of mine. Ever since getting a new camera last November I’ve been slowly absorbing little tidbits like photo retouching, panorama stitching, and hacking my camera.

What I’m most pleased with just now is my panoramas, like this one:

Onomichi, Hiroshima

Onomichi, Hiroshima

I discovered Hugin, an open-source panorama stitching suite that runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X. It makes great, practically seamless panoramas out of even poorly aligned photos; it’s leagues ahead of PhotoStitch, the OEM panorama software that comes with Canon cameras. Unfortunately the current version (0.7), which automates pretty much the whole stitching process, is unstable on OS X so I’ve been running it under Ubuntu in VMware.

See some more of my panoramas:

Click the previews at the links above for the full size photos.

2 Comments on “My new thang”

  1. 1 Mikawika said at 0:12 on July 2nd, 2008:

    Thanks for this! When I have some time I am totally gonna try out these programs and the tutorials. Have you mentioned these to Chris? He’s been getting more amped up about photography lately.

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