I went ski­ing a few weeks ago to Ischgl, Austria. Got stranded due to the vol­canic ash cloud but that’s another story. I was at this café at the top of a moun­tain and thought I’d take a panorama, and here it is:

Panorama of Ischgl, Austria

This is taken from 4 pho­tos, on a Panasonic Lumix of some descrip­tion, not sure what model, it’s my dad’s. I would have taken my DSLR, but I deemed it too risky in case I fell on it!

All in all, I had a great time in Ischgl, I’d defi­nately rec­om­mend it for skiers/snowboarders of all skill lev­els, there’s some­thing there for every­one. Apré-ski atmos­phere is very lively there too!

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Hugin isn’t any­thing new, but I’ve only just tried it for the first time today and I have to say I’m very impressed. The process of cre­at­ing a panorama with Hugin is beau­ti­fully sim­ple and quite straight for­ward. It involves load­ing pairs of images and spec­i­fy­ing points that ought to match up. That’s about it, Hugin then does it’s best to align the images accord­ing to your lens’s hor­i­zon­tal field of view angle and the points you spec­i­fied, and allows you to crop the resul­tant image.

And what’s won­der­ful about this project is that it’s open source. There’s a ton more options to cus­tomise how it han­dles your images, and even a com­mand line util­ity. All in all, a great piece of soft­ware. I’m plan­ning on exper­i­ment­ing with PTGUI too, which is based on the same library, Panorama Tools.

Panorama of New York from the top of the Rockafeller Centre