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Take Great Panoramic Pictures With Any Camera
2:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Panoramic software has come a long way toward making panoramic images child’s work. Great software or not, there’s no substitution for good source material. Take better panoramic pictures with these tips.Photo by Diego_3336. More »
Create And Share Panoramic Images At viewAt
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re interested in panoramic photography, viewAt combines a panoramic maker with a Google Maps mashup so you can not only create interactive panoramas but geotag them and share them with the world. More »
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Build A Panoramic Tripod Head For $10
1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Despite the excellent software solutions for stitching panoramic pictures together, there is no substitute for taking clean and well-aligned pictures from the start. Create great panoramas with an inexpensive DIY-tripod head. Over at the photo-editing site Worth1000, user Arodrix has put together a detailed tutorial on making your own panoramic mount. A panoramic camera-mount can set you back hundreds of dollars. If you’re not planning on paying the bills with your epic panoramic-shots of famed world locales, you’ll be better served making your own mount for $10 in parts. While the end product doesn’t have the polished look of a $300 mount it does provide the proper alignment necessary for a nice clean panorama. Below is the sample from his tutorial made with the mount—it required extremely minimal post-processing work to stitch neatly together: More »
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WPanorama Turns Your Panoramic Photos into Videos and Screensavers
10:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Freeware application WPanorama turns your panoramic photos into videos or screensavers. We’ve already shown you how to stitch your photos into beautiful panoramas, but once you’ve done that, there aren’t a lot of great ways to show them off. WPanorama animates the image as though you’re a viewer standing in the centre and looking around the full 360 degrees. If your panorama doesn’t make the full 360-degree trip, it just moves back and forth from one side of the photo to the other. WPanorama is freeware, Windows only. WPanorama [via CyberNet] More »
