…join me in the search for the simplicity found on the other side of complexity!
I love to hike, and always carry a camera to record what the day brings. But a a single frame often doesn’t do justice to the view from a Montana mountainside. The magic is in the experience of taking in the entire vista, focusing, one by one, on myriad different details.
So I often shoot panoramas – comprised of somewhere between three and forty frames. Once home, I download the images and using either Photoshop’s Photomerge or Hugin, stitch them together. But it’s a MONSTER – often 30 MB or larger. I can reduce it to an e-mailable size, but then you can’t see those great details! So that means the image is held captive on my drive.
Watching a TED video last weekend, I bumped into a solution that frees my land-locked panoramas.
Photosynth.net lets you (more…)
