Panoramas
Natural Bridge + iPhone + AutoStitch = Wow
Updated with a new pano from January 8, 2010:
That AutoStitch iPhone app never ceases to amaze me. I took a trip to Natural Bridge State Resort Park Sunday afternoon hoping to catch some of the fall color before it was too late (me and a few hundred other folks apparently had the same idea – I’ve never had to wait in line to get up the Sky Lift before). While under the arch, I thought I’d give the ol’ cell phone/panorama thing a try.
Thirty-two iPhone photos stitched together in AutoStitch in a matter of minutes produced the image above. It’s like magic to me.
Commonwealth Stadium pano during UT game
I had the good fortune of scoring some tickets for the Tennessee/Kentucky game Saturday night. I was hoping to witness a bit of history that night, but alas, UK couldn’t break UT’s 645-game winning streak. During a time out, though, when the folks in front of me had a moment to sit, I grabbed a few iPhone photos and stitched them together on the phone with the AutoStitch app.
Cigar shop
While visiting Austin, I saw this gentleman rolling cigars in a storefront. Thought I’d give it a go with the iPhone pano. This photo is 18 photos total. Below is a series with the QuadCam iPhone app.
iPhone App: Luvn that AutoStitch pano
Made with 19 iPhone photos and then used the Autostitch pano app and uploaded to my site with the Wordpress app. I probably shot and stitched this in 5-6 minutes.
The Wordpress app, however, isn’t playing nice with many blogs, including mine, when it comes to displaying full size images. I have to edit the post further in order to get the photos to display full size and centered and to get the text to appear below the photo. Bummer. Hope they fix that soon.
That AutoStitch pano app, on the other hand, ROCKS! It is by far the best iPhone pano app I’ve used. Granted, there are more out there, but these are at the top of the list when searching the app store for “pano”.
Autostitch ($2.00)- Easy interface, uses photos from your photo library, blends exposures, can handle a large number of photos, and the stitching is beautiful and remarkable fast. And, you can work backwards and remove a photo from your stitch easily if you need to take one out.
PanoLab (free, but there is a $2 pro version) – only uses photos from your library, but has a really wonky interface and the stitching is always manual (fun the first time), but if you use more than, like, three photos, it gets a nasty pinch in the middle.
Pano ($3) – Can’t use photos from your photo library (booooo. Deal killer for me. Wish I could get my money back.)
iPhone panos from Vegas
All shot with the iPhone camera. I used either Photomerge or Calico to stitch them.
Two Great Horses, One Great Rivalry
This is a project I did with the Herald-Leader’s Linda Blackford ahead of the 2009 Kentucky Derby. I shot the video interviews, collected some great archive photos from the Herald-Leader photogs, and produced it using Vuvox.
