Has anyone used Hugin?

[conholster]

Thanks Kind of trippy lookin at the image, since the the stuff to the left of it should be right infront of the house.

[Paul LeBlanc]

Thanks for the tip, great app! Here's a 360 of my front yard stitched together from 7 photos.

That's one great image... and a lotta raking. (note to self... do not agree to help Con with yard-work) 

 Ya know.. looking closer, your house seems to be set up with a perfect, tactical point of view... Is there something we should know Con? 

[conholster]

Thanks for the tip, great app! Here's a 360 of my front yard stitched together from 7 photos.

That's one great image... and a lotta raking. (note to self... do not agree to help Con with yard-work) 

 Ya know.. looking closer, your house seems to be set up with a perfect, tactical point of view... Is there something we should know Con? 

I dont know...the house was buit in the beginning of the 1930's. Actually we're renovating the upstairs bathroom (had a little plumbing problem) and while ripping out the guts of it I found a newspaper from 1934, really intresting even had an article about nazi germany.

[Paul LeBlanc]

 Very interesting.. I was originally joking but now with that info...
 Thinking from a tactical point of view... the home is set on the hill (seems to be centered on the property) where one would have the high-ground and full view of open ground from all directions.
 Maybe original owners were expecting a friendly visit? 

[PGTips91]

Well this topic has languished for over 120 days, apparently, but it is still relevant.

Has anyone been doing on-going work with Hugin?

I have and have found it getting easier to work with. My memory is poor, but I have recollections of having to find and fine-tune all the points of agreement between photos manually. Now this is totally automated and seems to work as prescribed most of the time. This applies even to hand-held photographs though I can see a need for a tripod of some sort to get the best results. It is not easy to keep the camera from straying up or down while rotating the camera around a scene.

Three of my recent panoramas are on-line at Picasa : --


Panorama of Mt Eden crater and beyond

Panorama at Wenderholm Regional Park

Panorama of Rangitoto Island


Hugin also has a function for combining several shots of the same scene into a single image that combines the best exposures for each component. I tried this on a difficult shot of an old church building, with late afternoon sun and back-lighting, just for the experience. Without a tripod to keep the scene identical I was not happy with the results and will have to get myself a tripod if I am going to use this technique, I feel.

For what it's worth, here's my album on this [I got a little lost in naming along the way, but the final Gimped image is not too bad, perhaps.] : --
Old church building

Further help at the Hugin Wiki http://wiki.panotools.org

Anyone else been working with Hugin lately?

Paul

[PGTips91]

I found this tutorial helpful in understanding about parallax errors.

FINDING THE NO-PARALLAX POINT

Working this out for my camera should simplify the process and improve results of taking panoramic shots.

Paul

[Jaws]

The problem with your panorama pics is I don't see anything wrong with them. Nor can I see where they were stitched. 

[PGTips91]

The problem with your panorama pics is I don't see anything wrong with them. Nor can I see where they were stitched. 

Thanks, Jaws, I'm pretty pleased with the way Hugin does its magic, too.

I've just discovered that I can upload my photos to Panoramio and have entered five into the current month's competition there.
http://www.panoramio.com/user/4255605

My latest effort, not so beautiful, but worthwhile as an exercise, is of a nearby land development project viewed from our upstairs bedroom window. Four hand-held snapshots on fairly high zoom are combined seamlessly into a panoramic view of the project.

LandDevelopmentPanorama

Paul

[PGTips91]

My latest work with hugin.

I posted about this on Linux Internationals, so will just put the link to that here.

Panoramas with hugin and GIMP

I've just added a couple of screen-shots showing how hugin found points of commonality in the clouds when composing the scene from Torbay.


Paul

[Jaws]

Thanks for sharing, Paul. Looks like you have a pretty good handle on Hugin.

Cheers

[MeeMaw]

That's beautiful, Paul!!!

 

[PGTips91]

Thank you everyone for your appreciation and encouragement.

Here is my latest effort with hugin, of a lovely deciduous tree in its Autumn colouring, taken today and just now stitched together in hugin.

It was a marvellous Autumn day without a single cloud in the sky when I took the photos, and the sun was in the right direction to show the tree in its best colours. I am more than happy with the results.

Click to view.

I have added this photograph to Panoramio,  here.

I would encourage anyone else to have a go at making a panorama with hugin, it is really easy to do as it has a GUI and a wizard to help. My last few attempts have simply used the wizard without any other fine-tuning with entirely satisfactory results. I think you can see the benefit of making a panorama with this scene.

Paul

[Jaws]

Simply amazing, Paul, great pics. I didn’t even think of doing an up and down, plus side to side panorama. Photo 8 looks like you caught the moon in the upper right corner of the pic too.

Are you using a polarizing filter on your lens? http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-use-and-buy-polarizing-filters

Looks like you guys drive on the wrong side of the street down there, huh?    And what is the dashed yellow line for?

Cheers

PS: I'm signed in at Panoramio but don't see where a person can vote??

[PGTips91]

Simply amazing, Paul, great pics. I didn’t even think of doing an up and down, plus side to side panorama. Photo 8 looks like you caught the moon in the upper right corner of the pic too.

Are you using a polarizing filter on your lens? http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-use-and-buy-polarizing-filters

Looks like you guys drive on the wrong side of the street down there, huh?    And what is the dashed yellow line for?

Cheers

PS: I'm signed in at Panoramio but don't see where a person can vote??

Hi Jaws,

It was the way that hugin stitched together my series of shots from the beach, recently, using only points in the clouds to overlap by, that spurred me to include more sky in future panoramas. Rather than having a long, narrow scene, it is more like the eye views it with more of the sky included, too. I had already seen how some have made a panorama of a mountain with a series of overlapping shots in more than one direction. So, yes, the possibilities are unlimited.

Thanks for the link on using a polarising filter, I will have to look into that as it may well help to overcome some of the problems I have been experiencing in certain lighting conditions. I have never used filters though I know my dad did in his day. [Read it now, and it makes perfect sense that polarisation gets the light coming from one direction and filters out a lot of scattered light. I will have to look into the possibility of fitting a filter to my Z650, it should be OK.]

As to the roads here, yes, we do drive on the left-hand side, being a former English colony. We have a little ditty that puts it well : --

"The rule of the road is a mystery quite,
Go right you go wrong, go left you go right!"

The yellow markings at the side of the road are no-parking lines.

Voting at Panoramio? I don't know how or where. I'll have to have a look-see. It is much easier to post something, as Picasa asks "Do you want to post that in Panoramio?" and I simply click on the link and it's done. As for browsing all the entries, I tried it once and found it too difficult, so I gave up quickly. I'm not at all concerned with voting, just thought that I would share some of my better scenes with a wider audience. Still, views are counted on the fingers of one hand, lol.

If a few folks view and enjoy that is reward enough for me. Thanks for posting back.

Paul

[Jaws]

A link off the home page of Panoramio:

http://www.panoramio.com/contest/

... and prizes too.

Cheers