A taste of Florence

[erebrandir]

I just posted this picture, on a whim from a post of guided_by_grace. I thought you people might care to see it.

It's a hastily-assembled panorama of Florence, from the top of Brunelleschi's dome (click to enlarge):

Comments

[__bothsidesnow]

Wow..so beautiful! I want to go to Italy so so badly. And FOUR THOUSAND!!! WOW. I thought 60-70ish ones from Australia were a lot.

[erebrandir]

Thank God for digital photography. I took a couple of hundred just the first day! I had to slow down, or in three weeks, I knew I was going to fill up my memory cards.

[anodiel]

Wow. I can't tell that it was put together. You did a good job.

[erebrandir]

I can't take any credit for it. :-p There's a program called PhotoStitch that came with my camera. The only thing I did was take photos at short enough intervals that it was able to smooth out the stitches.

[journey2emmaus]

I know this is bit of a back-dated comment, but I just found your journal and I loved that picture. I was in Florence last winter, and although I didn't go up into the dome I did climb the steps to the bell tower and the view was amazing! (I thought my some 300 photos was a lot, but 4,000 - wow!)

[erebrandir]

Thanks! The climb to the dome was a little daunting. And yeah, thank goodness for digital photography! I had a rather obsolete Canon PowerShot (which I accidentally murdered the other day, boo hoo) that was I think 3.2 megapixel, and I filled up two fat memory cards. I think I took about 200 pictures the first day I was in Italy, and had to force myself to slow down!

[chris462]

There's a bit of parallax at the seams, but that's to be expected. You're moving the nodal point of the lens. :P

Regardless, this is pretty well done. Some of the exposure seems to have changed from one shot to the next (look for vertical lines in the sky), but it's a fairly subtle change.

Good work. :)

[erebrandir]

Thanks. Yeah, for having been stiched together by a cheap little program that came with my camera, it didn't turn out half bad. I suppose you can do such stitching in Photoshop? I should learn how. And if I had a better camera, I could fix the exposure, but I carried a pretty simple little point-and-shoot to Italy.

[chris462]

Photoshop will do the stitching for you, as an action, but you'll still have parallax at the seams.

You need a panoramic tripod head (which ain't cheap) to get rid of the parallax. I'm saving for one of these.

[erebrandir]

Wow, that's beautiful. I'm saving for a new camera. :-( I murdered my digital (the one that went to Rome) the other day, but it was pretty old and obsolete anyway. I need money. I need a job.