Panorama: Lange Jaap

[janestarz]

Lange Jaap (Tall John in English) is the lighthouse of Den Helder. It is the tallest cast-iron lighthouse of Europe.

I've used Hugin to stitch the seven, landscape-oriented, pictures together. It's been a learning process!

Things I've learned:
- Set your exposure etc. for all the images thesame.
- Use a tripod where possible

Since this was a spur-of-the-moment thing I just shot it from the loose wrist, panning up as I went, but Hugin managed to stitch everything together into one awesomely huge tiff file. So awesomely huge even, that I had to redo it in JPG just so as it would not burst my /tmp at the seams.

Hugin is a cross-platform panaroma stitching program, so it should work as well on Windhoos and Mac as it does on Linux.
(sudo apt-get hugin!)

Another first to tick off the list!

Click through to "view all sizes" to view it in original size. You can almost read the sign on the bottom....



Now, if only I could remember how exactly I got this really quite good blend of all these exposures....

Comments

[ladynieske.livejournal.com]

wow, original size is huge! I can read bits of the sign below, which is really cool. Very nicely done :D

but... shooting from the loose wrist? I think I learned a new expression today ;)

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Dutchism from "Uit de losse pols"...

If we have Anglicisms they bloody well can have Dutchisms.

[ladynieske.livejournal.com]

touche