Pat’s Point of View

I’ve just added an album of panoramas to my photo gallery. Since panorama shots are quite trendy at the moment, I thought I’d show off some of ours. The shots are from our various travel adventures over the years, from such places as Paris, Malta, Egypt and the US. They’re all 1200 pixels wide in order to capture the panoramic effect, so they might be a bit slow to download.

Most of these shots were taken using our trusty old Canon IXUSv (in panorama mode) and stitched together using Canon’s PhotoStitch software. The results are fairly decent although there are some obvious flaws in most of the shots. Unfortunately the original shots have mostly been disposed of, in the interests of saving disk space, so it’s not possible to clean them up and re-stitch them.

I’ve recently been playing around with more modern stitching techniques, such Calico and Hugin for OSX (which produced the above shot of Stonehenge). It certainly gives our little Mac Mini a workout. And this is still using old shots, mostly 1600×1200 pixels, I can’t wait until I take some new ones with our new 350D!

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