Portuguese village church - stitched image
Published by on January 5th, 2007
Aww, shucks, I’ve had to upgrade to a flickr pro account in order to have more image sets and organise things properly. I’ve been fascinated with stitched panorama images for a while now and have tried pretty much every - affordable - tool available for the Mac. Nothing until today has managed to stitch this church together successfully.
The shots were taken from across a very narrow road in this village, there was simply no approproate view angle on the building without using a fish-eye lens - which I do not have. But being so close-in meant the 12 images I took at the camera’s widest setting had severe perspective conflicts where they overlapped.
Calico was the answer. I believe Calico uses the superb Autostitch technology, which means it’s pretty much automatic. That’s great if it analyses all your images and matches them up, but I’ve found a couple of panoramas today that it could not handle, probably because the seascapes did not have enough image detail to match image boundaries.
Still, Calico did manage this church pretty well, where all others failed. I have created a flickr set for my stitched images (there’s a flickr group with more Calico stitched images here).There are more to come over the next few days, including one experiment down at Worthing beach on Christmas day where I took 95 close-in images of a couple of boats on the beach, just to see what might come out of it.
