Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Photoshop has a reasonably good stitching capability. Good how to videos from their site. On Feb 2, 2018 2:04 AM, "Peter Klein via LUG" <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Last summer I spent several hours in the Kunsthistoriche Museum in Vienna, > looking at and photographing their "Ancient Instruments" collection. They > have examples of instruments from the middle ages to the middle of the 20th > century. I was like a kid in a candy store. > > The Rules were you could photograph anything you wanted, but no flash and > no tripods. I can do that. I plan to put up a gallery of what I > photographed for fellow musicians to see. The pictures aren't perfect > given the conditions, lighting and reflections off glass cases, but the > chance to see these instruments is worth it. > > Some longer instruments, such as my beloved bassoons, would not fit in a > single picture without my backing off and losing too much detail, so I took > them in two or three sections, using my knees as a camera elevator. (Ouch!) > Can anyone recommend a stitching program that would put them together > again. Easy is good. Free is good, although not too expensive is also OK > if it's worth the money. > > Here are two sets of three pictures each of some bassoons and > contrabassoons to show you what I am dealing with. I don't care what > happens to the backgrounds or the non-subject instruments at the sides of > the pictures. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/P6150271.jpg.html> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/P6150270.jpg.html> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/P6150269.jpg.html> > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/P6150257.jpg.html> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/P6150256.jpg.html> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/P6150255.jpg.html> > > Thanks for any advice. > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information