When panos go bad!

I was experimenting with going very wide indeed, and different pano processors were starting to give very different results due to their assumptions about projection and so on.

This one is from Autostitch, but I failed to tell it which orientation to use for the original pictures. It did its best, in an Escheresque sort of way... it scares me because I live there

My living room:






Once I told it which way round things were things improved dramatically, although there is still a bit of bad stitching causing some ghosting. Note that this is from the same position as the one above, but the stitching and merging is now correctly aligned:





Same position but aligned a different way, so this keeps the ceiling straight and everything else has to sort itself out, the conservatory is normal but that makes the settee upside down. Note the handle of the tripod




Moving the tripod to a point where the room joins on to the conservatory gives a different result again. The thing along the top of the frame is the projector screen and black loudspeaker you can see in numbers 2 and 3, but stretched beyond recognition. There's also a bit of image of brickwork that seems to have migrated from the conservatory to the wall on the left.





All taken on the Sigma 10-20mm, at 10 or sometimes 12mm, using a rather hokey MDF pano head to ensure the lens pivots round the exit pupil for both pan and tilt.

OMG. Thanks . . . for making me feel sick. Roller coasters and me never did agree

It's fun though.

I've not done many panos, but aren't you supposed to correct the lens distortions first PTLens was originally brought out for use with PanoTools.

Woah, that was a mess. I've been using PSE9's autopano function which seems to work very well. Did a 50MP stitch of a National Trust garden as a test.

It seems to fail when you try a 120MP stitch though...

The lens distortion is negligible compared to the projection effects - the bending is all due to trying to make 40 or more wide-angle pictures fit into a single frame. Number 2 covers 360 degrees, you can see the doorway on the left and the open door is on the right. Everything gets curved to fit by the program.

Interesting...I like the effect!

Number 3 was Photomerge in Photoshop. When it works it can be very good, but it has a habit of just throwing pieces out if it doesn't like them. It can also grind to a halt when stressed.

Interesting work and result's.

Did a HDR pano on my holiday, always fun to do and indeed thanks for making me feel sick

Didn't make me feel sick. Great shots. Except the white bits in the first one

I wouldn't say panos gone bad. Its panos gone f... mental!

I really like these shots; and the almost vomit inducing effect they have. Very interesting indeed, and I'm in total agreement with Edumad, pano's gone bad they aint.