as mentioned before , i also shot two panoramas from the watch-tower yesterday. because i’m on holiday preparation, i found some time to stitch them with the excellent hugin [1].
both panoramas below were shot hand-held, without a tripod and without aperture-control (i need that with my next camera…). the original images were resized to 1024*768 pixels to prevent harddisk-bloat, and then stitched.
with the free program make cubic they were assembled into a QTVR. click on the thumbnails below, wait until the movies are loaded (beware: they’re both quite big!) and then click/drag around with your mouse.
here’s the one i shot from the center of the tower:
(1.7mb .mov)
this image was quite tricky to assemble, mostly because of the distortion of the wooden beams in contrast to the not distorted heaven. maybe i should start carrying a tripod around…
and here’s the one i shot from the handrail:
(1.8mb .mov)
this image was assembled fully automatic using autopano-sift , hugin and makecubic. no intervention from me except clicking some buttons and dragging a file to the dock. nifty, innit?
if you’d like to see the pictures as jpg, then you can see them on flickr . both images are available in full glory, be it either 7153 x 681 (from the center) or 7040 x 694 (from the handrail) pixels big.
[1] if you load the page, you might see some panoramas from me as the head banner….