Cloudscape panoramas

[OsmosisStudios]

I've started to use HugIn (it's... daunting). I was out the other day and got these off. All handheld, about 1/20s for each frame.

First is 2 vertical shots

Second is 5 vertical shots

I think I've done OKAY for my first run with the software. Im gonna have to read a few more tutorials to see what I can improve on.

UPDATE:
I stitched all 7 together into 1 big pano.
And yes, the ground does wave like that: its not an optical illusion.

[Taallyn]

Hey, you managed to get a UFO in the second one!

[inkista]

Welcome to a wider world. And yeah, Hugin's getting me to scratch my head, since I'm so used to PTMac...

[OsmosisStudios]

Taallyn: That would be the moon. Makes a great coordination point though!

inkista: I never tried PTMac. I was suggested Hugin and jsut got it. Its not that it's COMPLICATED, but that some things just arent adequately explained.

[Taallyn]

That's just what the FBI wants you to think. I definately see a trans-spatial displacement field around it. Perhaps a MkII version, not the more recent MkIV.

[inkista]

PTMac is shareware in the $40 range. The only reason I went with it is that at the time, is that Hugin development had just started and all I could get the OSX port of it to do was open and crash. PTGui at the time was still Windows-only. PTMac and PTAssembler were probably the two earliest PanoramasTools GUIs out there, but PTAssembler wasn't really for the equirectangular thing. So that left a single choice if I wanted an OSX app.

And I didn't wanna have to learn how to write PT scripts and run 'em from the command line, because life's just too damn short.

Since then, obviously, the landscape's changed a bit. Now, I'd say that Hugin's far in advance of what PTMac has to offer, features-wise, which makes perfect sense given the number of developers each project has and just how graphics-geeky open source coders can be, and how good Hugin is at being an interface for all those open source tools being developed (e.g., enfuse). PTGui's probably the easiest PT package to use and is now cross-platform, but comes with a $100+ price tag.

I'm also not 100% convinced that I'd recommend using the OSX standalone version of Mathmap, rather than going through the Gimp plug-in, but the last version I messed with was considerably more stable than previous ones I used. So, if you felt a burning need to do tessellations or the Droste effect, Mathmap Cocoa may be the way to go.

[navcom]

I use Autopano Pro. It's very well designed and usually stitches without any input from me. If the composition is more intense, I might need to tweek it a bit, but it's extremely rare.