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Continuing my experiments with iPhone panoramas (and risking turning this blog into just a photo-blog), this was stitched together using Photoshop CS3 from three pictures I took this weekend. I'm not terribly happy with the colors, but I'm a bit limited with the iPhone.
Every spring, the county brings in this herd of goats to munch on the grass across from my house. The furry lawnmowers devour a prodigious amount of grass every day, and they make quick work of the area. It's difficult to see in this picture, but there's a goat walking across the pipe. This group is about half of the goats working the hill. When they're all concentrated in a smaller area, it looks like a sea of fur and horns.
I've been experimenting with panoramas over the past few months, with varying degrees of success. Panoramas are multiple pictures of a given scene, from different views, combined into one larger, (hopefully) coherent, image. Since I'm only using my iPhone, the individual source pictures aren't that great (fingers crossed that iPhone 2.0 has a better camera), but I like the results. I'm using Calico to assemble the panoramas, and I think it does a good job. One of the challenges is adjusting the exposure/colors of the individual pictures. Calico does some of that automatically, but as you can see in these, there's still some variation. A second challenge is getting enough 'coverage' of the scene. As you can see in these panoramas, there are some black spots indicating where I didn't get enough coverage (ie. take a picture). Click through each picture to Flickr for other sizes.
The first panorama was taken in Kauai last month:
The next two panoramas are from Northstar, Lake Tahoe. The first is from off the top of Comstock:
And this one is from mid-way down Prosser. It's difficult to see, but in the upper, middle of this picture is the Truckee, Tahoe airport:
