Thanks all for your advice. Unfortunately I am on a tour and we have been and gone. I shall try to keep these lessons in mind for future projects.
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 2:05 AM David W. Jones <gnomeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't do what Gunter recommends (rotate around the center of the lens, > also called the nodal point). There are ways to figure out where the > nodal point of your lens is, but I've never bothered since I use a zoom > lens and the nodal point changes based on focal length. > > I rotate around my torso - set my feet stably, turn upper body to left > (or right, whichever you prefer), then shoot pictures with 50% overlap. > So the right edge of the first frame falls in the middle of the > viewfinder when I shoot the subsequent frame. Don't move the feet! > > When shooting the higher row of images, frame that for a 50% overlap > between the bottom of the new frame and the corresponding image in the > lower row. > > Also, keep the camera leveled horizontally. That helps keep things > straight. > > A last idea, if you can go back and reshoot it, is to shoot portrait > instead of landscape orientation. That might enable you to get the > entire center part of the panorama (house and that lovely little water > channel feeding into the pond) in one vertical shot. That would fix the > mismatched point in the water channel, and possibly eliminate the little > mismatch in the eve of the house. It might also trigger mismatches in > the lines of the pond, but I think Hugin would handle those better than > the existing mismatches. > > Nice picture, that is a really lovely house and yard! > > On 8/7/23 19:27, Gunter Königsmann wrote: > > To me it looks like the camera hasn't only changed the angle it shot > > the images from, but also was moved horizontally, which means that one > > cannot warp the images in a way that they fit together in all places > > at once. Often Hugin Manages to move these discontinuities to places > > where they are hard to see. But that often requires the images to > > overlap strongly in order to give hugin more possibilities to place > > the seams. > > > > One important thing I had to learn was not to tilt the camera around > > its center, but around the center of the lens. > > > > Kind regards, Gunter > > > -- > David W. Jones > gnomeno...@gmail.com > wandering the landscape of god > http://dancingtreefrog.com > My password is the last 8 digits of π. > > -- > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/0bd6fbfd-11ec-0c50-c2d7-4b496f2d72f0%40gmail.com > . > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/CAHiEbuXOfHmfTn5H65U5HYo1ZtABL35UekO-T8KBtYPATKaFiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
