Wim's blog » Photography http://blog.grandtrunk.net Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:31:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Panoramic images with Hugin http://blog.grandtrunk.net/2009/12/panoramic-images-with-hugin/ http://blog.grandtrunk.net/2009/12/panoramic-images-with-hugin/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:03:53 +0000 Wim http://blog.grandtrunk.net/?p=101 I used to stitch my panorama’s using Canon’s PhotoStitcher, which came bundled with my camera, and being only so-so pleased. But the other night I discovered Hugin, an open source panorama stitcher that seems to do a much better job.

Here are some nice results from my last trip:

I also re-did some older ones, including my 360° Empire State building one:

Comparing these Hugin results with my previous panorama’s, both stitching and overall image quality have been hugely improved. The Empire State one still has some rather bad stitches though, but that’s probably because I was still using my Canon 18-55mm kit lens at the time, and set it to its extreme end of 18mm which results in some pretty bad distortions. I’ve learned to use an intermediate zoom settings since, which greatly improves results.

]]> http://blog.grandtrunk.net/2009/12/panoramic-images-with-hugin/feed/ 0 Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 wide-angle lens http://blog.grandtrunk.net/2009/01/tokina-11-16mm-f2-8-wide-angle-lens/ http://blog.grandtrunk.net/2009/01/tokina-11-16mm-f2-8-wide-angle-lens/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:41:02 +0000 Wim http://blog.grandtrunk.net/?p=31 … or how to make a small space look huge.

I couldn’t resist, and bought another lens. This time a real wide-angle lens, the Tokina AF 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X Pro DX. Yes, it’s a zoom lens, and on paper the range fitted nicely to my Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8. But the difference between 11 and 16mm turned out to be so tiny (and the image quality so good that cropping an 11mm image down to 16mm would be more than adequate), that I might as well have gotten a prime 11mm one. But still, a very nice lens this is!

So what exactly did I ‘need’ this lens for? My brother wanted some shots of his studio. Our attic isn’t that big, but on these pictures it looks pretty impressive ;-)

Record Office

Record Office

Of course, it’s also a nice holiday lens:

Cape Town

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