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January 2, 2009:
Malibu Creek State Park
Now for something completely different:
One of my core passions is landscape photography. I had taken some
landscape photos when I first obtained my photo gear, but at that time
it was all negative film. I figured that the 120mm negatives would
capture much more image information than any digital camera, and
although, that is generally true, I found that after developing the
negatives and scanning them in high resolution, the result was less than
I expected. Image detail was way too soft. There is also a
great deal of work fixing all the dust specs and hairline scratches that
can result even from negatives developed by the lab! After
obtaining my Leaf Valeo 6 Digital back, even though it was only a 6
megapixel back, the results were outstanding. I realized that this
would give me the detail I needed. I just needed a way to
super-size the resolution and photo stitching was a method that came to
mind.
I had been searching for good photo stitching software for a long time
with mixed results. If you are not familiar with photo stitching
software, it basically takes a series of overlapping photos and
'stitches' the photos together. It makes panoramic photos
possible. I needed the software to do more than make panoramic
photos, I needed it to be able to stitch together at least a 3 x 3 array
of photos to make really high resolutions photos.
At photo.net they made mention of a photo stitching program called
Autopano pro. I downloaded the trial ($145 to purchase). I
decided to test the software by taking a high resolution portrait photo
and slicing it into a 3 x 3 array of overlapping photos. Photo
stitching software is more designed for panoramic landscapes, but I
thought if it is really good, it should be able to reassemble to the
portrait without distortion. So I ran the test and found it was
about 80% successful. There was some very noticeable barrel
distortion and the hand of the model was no longer attached to the arm.
I remembered hearing about new features in Windows 7, specifically photo
stitching. I hoped that possibly, this would be available for
other windows systems and sure enough, it was.
Windows Live Photo Gallery can be downloaded for free. For my
test it was still in its beta test mode. I installed the software
and ran the same test. Windows Live Photo Gallery stitched the
portrait so well, I could not tell it apart from the original.
Continued...->
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