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116. An Every-Day Scene
9 months ago
Many people today use their little still cameras to take video clips. I'm going in the other direction, using my camcorder to take snapshots.
With the 'auto stitching' feature of Windows Live Photo Gallery doing such a great job putting pictures together, this one was made with a dozen 2 megapixel pictures... stitched into an 8386 x 2217 pixel composite. That's about 20 megapixels... from a standard DV camcorder. The quality sure beats taking frame snapshots from a video file.
An everyday scene like this can take on new life in a photo story.
With the 'auto stitching' feature of Windows Live Photo Gallery doing such a great job putting pictures together, this one was made with a dozen 2 megapixel pictures... stitched into an 8386 x 2217 pixel composite. That's about 20 megapixels... from a standard DV camcorder. The quality sure beats taking frame snapshots from a video file.
An everyday scene like this can take on new life in a photo story.
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I am working on something similar: a 360° panoramic view of our courtyard, in 3 layers which would make it almost a sferical pano, but I keep running into issues of perspective deformation. Maybe the place is too small and and I should take another subject in the open fields
I used IrfanView to tilt the composite image for this story by 2-1/2 degrees. There's also a plug-in for it that can resolve perspective and lens distortions. Richard Roseman's filters and plugins for Photoshop work also in IrfanView, and he provides them as free downloads.
richardrosenman.com/software/downloads/
I look at the composite to see if it needs any overall leveling. This one didn't have any horizon and I could have used it as is, but there was a house in the middle of it on far side of the bog that seemed to want to appear level, so I used it to do my adjusting.
With the cropping in Photo Story, the house never shows up, but the 2.5 degree change to the whole picuture made it all feel better. Our brains know that water in a bog is level.
Today I'm going to a couple wider stories to see how they show on vimeo and facebook.... one in the Standard American Cinema Widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and another in CinemaScope Widescreen 2.35:1
During my Microsoft HDview experiences, I found this article about panoramas from video which may interest you.
Pleae copy/paste the following URL as Vimeo could not reproduce it properly.
hdview.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1AD33AA162CE96C2!965.entry