Michael,
Knowing how you like panos, I’m sending a link of 3 photos of Prague that I cobbled together into a near panoramic montage (not Photoshop quality, but reasonably good) while I was going through our shots of Eastern Europe.
Patrick has some good shots which we just digitized, and I’ll add them to the collection I’m assembling.
–rakkity
Near this near that, this is nearly perfect. How did you do it without a tripod? And when you click on each image you get a two montior filing, NASA quality closeup.
I second Mike — very well done! And perfectly evocative — what a beautiful city! Looks like an early-last-century postcard. Thanks!
Wow! Upon retirement you and Mrs. Rakkity should start a travelogue including your own photos. You know all the good restaurants all over the world and where to stay and such.
Tripod,shmipod. All I did was shoot in 4 different directions, checking that there was a good overlap,
and that a feature in the lower left corner of one shot appeared in the lower right corner of the next shot.
At home, when I looked at the pix on my minimac, it appeared that I had overlapped too generously, so only needed 3 of the 4. So I cropped the pictures carefully to make the best match left-right and bottom-top, did some re-scaling using “IrfanView” and inserted them into an html template file for the web. And there you are.
As for being of near NASA quality—since I had lost my camera on a bus back in Budapest, I was shooting with Beth’s 10-year old film camera. The Bowie CVS digitized all the negatives for me onto a CD for $2.99, and Voila’, wysiwig.
Beautiful, and well done. Is that 180 degrees, or more like 270?
More like 150 degrees. Wider than that, and the view would have been obscured by steeples & spires.