Into the woods

September 06, 2020 • 2 Comments

Wood SceneWoodland Panorama It's difficult to capture the sense of immersion in the open southern woodland. It's almost a religious experience for me. I heard about a panorama and focus-stacking tool called Hugin. Since it runs on my favorite operating system (Linux), I gave it a try.

Lake EdgeThe Edge of the Lake The results are stunning. The main trick, other than using a stable pivoting point, is not to use too many images. They shouldn't overlap by more than a third because if they do and they're too complicated, then the program will not converge. I ended up using every other image I took to make these.

Keywords: hugin, nature, panorama, photographic techniques, photography, pictures, postprocessing

Comments

Robert Harrison, Photography

Thank you.
I don't know the Android world well enough to recommend an "in phone" solution, but you can save a series of photos and stitch them up afterwards. Hugin will run on windows and (I think) macOS. It's pretty much a push-button program: load photos, align, generate image. (Though there are quite a lot of detailed options that I haven't yet explored)

vikki stefans(non-registered)

Robert these are fabulous! I got a little walk-in-the-woods time at Lake Wedington yesterday and a little bike ride today, and I wish I'd had something like this? You know anything a non-pro like me could use on an Android phone?

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