360 panorama, Amsterdam Noord

I’ve bought myself a Nodal Ninja 3 panorama head. Today I gave it a first test run, and it worked very well! That’s my bike, by the way ;-)

360 panorama, Amsterdam Noord

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Photo hosted by Flickr.

This panorama was made up of 90 individual photos. I used exposure bracketing at -3EV, 0EV and +3EV to be able to handle the dynamic range of the scene. Stiching and HDR fusion was done with Hugin. To create the control points I used Autopano-SIFT, since I couldn’t really be bothered to manually align all those 90 photos. Once the points were created, I hit the Hugin “optimize” button, deleted all control points that had a distance over 30, optimized again, deleted control points with a distance over 10, optimized again, and let Hugin stitch the lot.

I’m happily surprised with the result! There are very few alignment issues, which is quite good for a fully automatic process.

The software I used was mostly Open Source. The only closed source bit was Bibble Pro, which I used to import the RAW images, apply some lens correction, and output as TIFF for Hugin.

dr. Sybren A. Stüvel
dr. Sybren A. Stüvel
Open Source software developer, photographer, drummer, and electronics tinkerer

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