Friday, January 29, 2010

Panorama redux, uhhhh, x4!

Okay, yep: I just had to ignore hugin's bad preview function. This is an example of how it shows up in the preview, and for whatever reason, this is far from the worst example of the preview:

The weird shadow-like rectangular shapes are an example of how the preview doesn't work well. In other previews, there were half a dozen variously diagonally tilted shadowboxes, making the image look far worse, and basically unusable. Here is the actual output for this image:

And here are a few more panoramas over a few days. Close to sunset:

Same time of day, taken in horizontal format:

And here's a weird, super narrow vertical view, since I was using the telephoto lens fully zoomed in (55mm):

Several comments I read online indicated that using the lens zoomed out would, for various obscure reasons, result in a better quality panorama. Unfortunately, for the images from my balcony, a telephone zoom at even 55mm is too much to make the image interesting, since it loses the sky and perspective of the buildings.

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