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Panorama
Posted by Lee in Photography on November 11, 2009
Panoramic photo stitching used to be the realm of proprietary bundled software that came with various cameras that always seemed to generate horrible seams. Today there’s a wealth of packages of all shapes and sizes. On my trip to China in 2008, I took a few sets of photos expecting to run through the paces. The following example is some more fall foliage from Jiuzhaiguo.
But it’s really a far more exiting in a Google Maps Viewer form.
Using Photomatix with Picasa
Posted by Lee in Photography on November 5, 2009
Suddenly 2 months go by and I don’t have any posts to show for it. For shame.
My current project is to finally sort through all of the photos that I’ve taken over the years. The side benefit(even if I don’t finish) would be to have a few images with getting a print of to decorate my house. I also had the foresight(or pure masochistic desire) to take many multiple image sets for future postprocessing via HDR or panoramic stitching. Using Google’s Picasa for a cross platform management software, the most notable limitation was that I couldn’t easily pass sets of photos to Photomatix. A bit of research on Google’s API enabled me to create a button that will automagically open Photomatix with the files in my Picasa tray.
You can install my little button using this link(assuming that you have Picasa installed). Ironically the link doesn’t actually work with Google’s Chrome browser.
But since no one actually cares about my ramblings, here’s a nice HDR photo from my trip to Jiuzhaiguo in 2008:
