Panoramic Photography

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="–click for larger image–"][/caption]I specialize in panoramic photography –taking shots that simply are not possible with standard cameras. This is usually due to space constraints such as not enough distance within a confined space to fully capture the desired image with a single shot. I could obtain these shots with a DSLR camera with a fisheye lens but this is a large expense and limits my field of view to just what each lens is capable of. To provide a more economical approach and add the flexibility to be as wide as needed, I take shots with a standard “prosumer” digital camera with a tripod and then use Hugin software to digitally “stitch” the images into a seamless panoramic shot. You can see in the working example to the left some of the processes of photo-stitching using the Hugin software. This sample is composed completely from camera-phone images. Below are some examples of my work…

Jan 251995
 

–click for larger image–

I specialize in panoramic photography –taking shots that simply are not possible with standard cameras. This is usually due to space constraints such as not enough distance within a confined space to fully capture the desired image with a single shot. I could obtain these shots with a DSLR camera with a fisheye lens but this is a large expense and limits my field of view to just what each lens is capable of. To provide a more economical approach and add the flexibility to be as wide as needed, I take shots with a standard “prosumer” digital camera with a tripod and then use Hugin software to digitally “stitch” the images into a seamless panoramic shot. You can see in the working example to the left some of the processes of photo-stitching using the Hugin software. This sample is composed completely from camera-phone images. Below are some examples of my work…

Jan 201995
 
Jon's Workshop

-click for larger image-

Jon’s Workshop
This was one of my first large-scale tests to prove I can create panoramic fisheye-lens photos from multiple images within an extremely confined space. In this example, I placed the camera on a tripod at the corner of the room (by the door) and collected 3 passes of 9 shots for this image. As you may notice from the distortions at the extreme edges, it wasn’t a perfect creation but the angles of the photos at the far edges made the stitching computations nearly impossible. Still, the shot works for the most part!