So I went to the BYU University Chorale concert tonight at the Provo Tabernacle. (I intend to write a bit more about that later.) I decided it would be cool to test my skills with Hugin, which I recently discovered, to create a panorama of the front of the Tabernacle.
It was quite an ordeal. I took three sets of shots of the entire east side of the building using exposure lock and burst mode on my Canon PowerShot A550. The first set, which I took prior to the concert, had too many people in it, so I didn’t attempt to use it. On the second set, which I took after the concert, I locked the exposure on the upper part of the building, including the sky. For the third set I locked the exposure on the lower part of the building. Because of the ISO speed difference, the third set turned out blurry on most of the shots, so I couldn’t use it.
So, I settled on using the second set of shots, which contained about 50 exposures. I spent probably an hour aligning the control points on the frames I wanted. Cross your fingers. I ran the stitcher and got this:
Not quite ideal.
I played around with the various projections and but still came up with very distorted images. I followed some instructions on this how-to and, after some post processing, produced this image:
It’s all still a bit rounded (I tried to fix that, too, believe you me), but I’m pretty impressed with what I was able to make of 50 photos, some open-source software, and a laptop.
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