Over the past decade I’ve gone through my fair share of panorama formats for online delivery; QTVR, java, Flash and HTML5 to mention a few. Dealing with format changes, or switching viewers can pose a number of problems which require a lot of work to resolve so before I begin yet again it’s time for a more sustainable approach. Continue reading
This is another of my favourite trees around the uni… and the old blue stone building behind it isn’t bad either (although you can’t see around corner 😉 ) This post is a test for setting up PanoPress for WordPress. Continue reading
Finally got around to stitching some photos I shot last week. The last time I shot panoramas around the museum was in similar weather. Continue reading
The last few nights had been foggy so I wasn’t being too hopeful about getting a good shot of the lunar eclipse this year. I also left my laptop at work, so focusing was going to be fun. A quick test on the full moon before going to bed worked OK. Continue reading
Side by side Masking and Detail Viewer in PTGui
Parallax errors aside, many gigapixel images contain a number of “errors” due to the nature of capturing portions of an image over a period of time. People and cars getting cut in half at the border between images are the most obvious. Some of the latest features added to PTGui now make it practical to do a lot of manual tweaking prior to stitching so to test these out I set our to produce a stitched image with no post-editing other than colour adjustment. Continue reading
This composite image of a set of perspective drawings of St Louis by Camille Dry in the mid 1870’s was stitched together using PTGui as an exercise to see if image stitching methods could produce a well aligned composite image. Continue reading
Camera manufacturers have been claiming for years that their digital sensors have the same dynamic range as film… and yet at the same time there has been a steady growth of “HDR” and tone mapping utilities. This article describes the technique I currently use to create the source images for my panoramas. Continue reading
After a short-lived false start, I’m back again to set up this website. The tutorials and other pages that I’ve worked on before will come back gradually one page at a time but time constraints have pretty much blown away any concrete plans. Instead, I’m just going to let the site evolve on it’s own, starting with blogging some of my smaller projects and experiments to give some for the forums a break from my posts 😉
If you’re looking for some of my older sites they’re still available here:
… or check the links section in the footer for other sources of my photos and panoramas.