Panorama stitching programs

Okay, we are going to make some panoramas! I love panoramas! One day I will offer an all panorama class!

Once you have all your images shot for inclusion into a panorama, you need to use a program to stitch the individual images into a single panoramic image.

The Photo Merge panorama feature in PS is much better than it was before. You might just want to start there. It can be accessed by going to File > Automate > PhotoMerge.

Hugin - a very powerful, feature rich panorama stitching program. It is however, not the most user friendly program. It is free though. Awesome name.


PTgui is a commercial product similar to Hugin but possibly with better support
There are other programs besides Hugin that you might want to try.

Microsoft's Image Composite Editor (ICE) - Free Microsoft program, simple but powerful. There is however no official support. Support is via a community forum. Of course, it is Windows only.

Gigapan is project to create incredibly high resolution panorama images using a robotic panorama head.

Autopano - high end panorama stitching software. Very powerful, but expensive.

Links to my other class blogs with relevant readings

art2150.blogspot.com - links to basic digital workflow for scanned images

art3150.blogspot.com - links to exposure determination readings and a little write up on the topic

Further inspiration

Nathan Harger - awesome images. Notice that many of them don't include any buildings. BTW- he is from Cleveland and some of the shots are of Cleveland.

Julian Faulhaber- very bold use of color. Great compositions and shots from everyday places that are transformed due to their absence of people. I love the basketball court image. Some are at night, others not.

Darren Soh - Check out his series While You Were Sleeping. Night shots of Singapore.

Good Photography quotes

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. - Ansel Adams, Photographing Nature: LIFE Library of Photography by Time-Life (Editor)

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. - Ansel Adams

It's about the culture, not the buildings

Throughout this course, I want you keep the following in mind:

It's about the culture, not the buildings. What led to the creation, utilization, abandonment, etc of a place?

When you take your photos, what you saying about the culture? Are you reveling in it, mocking it, revolted by it, celebrating it, are you impartial (is that even possible? Why would you photograph it then)?

Reading for the weekend

Reading for the weekend

Required Text Book

Worlds Away by John Archer et al

Depending on where you get it, it may be as much as $31.45 (if you order it fulfilled through Amazon. You can buy from on of the private seller's from Amazon for as little as $18.68 plus shipping. Please order it ASAP.

Direct link to the book on Amazon. I don't care where you get it from.