Downtown Hartford AL

[Fairportfan]

Town Square, Hartford Alabama, Saturday Afternoon, 24 November 2012



360-degree (slightly more, actually) panoramic image, stitched from 82 individual shots. The original image is 22,016 x 4,141 pixels, and about 11 meg. Click here for larger view.)

[lake_wrangler]

2 questions:

What are you trying to convey, here? (i.e. what is the purpose of showing us these photos? - Please do not read annoyance, but rather, inquisitive curiosity into that statement/question.)

What's with the two half cars?


OK, three questions...
Did you take those yourself?

[Fairportfan]

2 questions:

What are you trying to convey, here? (i.e. what is the purpose of showing us these photos? - Please do not read annoyance, but rather, inquisitive curiosity into that statement/question.)

What's with the two half cars?

OK, three questions...
Did you take those yourself?

A) Nothing in particular - just sort of documenting where i've been and showing off. I take pictures. I show them to people.

B) There are half cars because i turned the 360 three times at different levels, and they were stopped at the light the second time around but not the first, and so, when i combined the shots using Microsoft Digital Image Composite Editor (which is free, BTW, and works really well for stitching groups of images), that was the result.*

Note that the light pole near center is slightly mis-aligned with itself, as well.

C) Yep. I wish i'd waited twenty or so minutes before i shot the flag, so the sun would have been a touch lower.

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* You ought to see what can happen when you do a panorama of an exhibition hall with people walking around...

[Dave]

* You ought to see what can happen when you do a panorama of an exhibition hall with people walking around...

A half-hectare of hemiguests?

[lake_wrangler]

A) Nothing in particular - just sort of documenting where i've been and showing off. I take pictures. I show them to people.

Interesting. I, too, take lots of pictures, but I hardly show them at all...
I do, however, use them as part of my desktop wallpaper, cycling through them...

B) There are half cars because i turned the 360 three times at different levels, and they were stopped at the light the second time around but not the first, and so, when i combined the shots using Microsoft Digital Image Composite Editor (which is free, BTW, and works really well for stitching groups of images), that was the result.*

I'll have to look into that software. I recently installed Windows 7 on my computer, and while the software for downloading photos from my camera to the computer did install fine, the software for stitching photos together did not...

Note that the light pole near center is slightly mis-aligned with itself, as well.

Now that you mention it...

C) Yep. I wish i'd waited twenty or so minutes before i shot the flag, so the sun would have been a touch lower.

A lot of my photos are light-related (be it rising or setting sun and its effect on things). But most times, I do not have the luxury of waiting for a better light composition, as I am snapping them from the bus I am driving... (Don't worry, I am not putting anyone in danger by doing so: most of the time, I am stopped at a light or something, when I snap the picture; other times I am driving slowly, in not too congested areas, and once I have seen that which I want to photograph, I keep my eyes on the road while snapping the photo with the left hand out the window, a technique I have perfected during the last few years of taking long driving vacations...)

* You ought to see what can happen when you do a panorama of an exhibition hall with people walking around...

*Snrk*

[Fairportfan]

A comparison of several free image stitchers.

Microsoft DICE beats the best not-free stitcher i've tried (Serif PanoramaPlus*) in ease of use and results. (However, PanoramaPlus can extract frames from video to stitch.)

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* Hmmm - i see PP is up to version 4; the latest i've tried is V3...

[lake_wrangler]

Hey hey! It works!

Here's a panorama I took of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from I-81, in VA, last summer:



The original is 27954 X 2900 pixels... But this above is the biggest I can get as an upload to a free Photobucket account... I may eventually pay for the premium service, at which point it will allow me to upload full size, if I recall... but for now, this will do.

[bmonk]

Nice! I visited once up in the Winchester-Berryville area.