January 30th, 2009 by Rolf
At least Europeans should be familiar with the “900 Days of Leningrad“, the siege by the German Wehrmacht which costs a lot of lives and destroyed most of the city. But they never gave up.
Sergei Larenkov, a Russian artist, found a lot of images from that time and took images from the same spot today. Digitally combined they have a strong impact.
You can find the collection at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com.
For doing such a thing with an old image from your town you first have to find the spot and figure out the focal length of the lens (see comments). Then take the picture. My tip for stacking them would be Hugin, but I have never tried that. Then just mask parts of the top image and let the bottom one shine through.
Tags: hugin
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October 31st, 2008 by Rolf
Hugin has changed enormously in the two years since the 0.6.1 release, hardly any part of the code has remained untouched. There have been many many bug-fixes, improvements to the interface and lots of new features. We had a show about this panorama building software way back – seems to be time for a new one.
There is a new help system, new assistants, improved handling of images and correction of exposure. HDR is integrated and a lot more. Get the full thing here.
GIMP has released 2.6.2 – a lot of bugs have been killed. The version from Getdeb doesn’t install on Ubuntu Hardy – but I’ll switch to the Ibex soon.
Tags: 2.6, 2.6.2, hugin
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February 23rd, 2008 by Serge
Recently two interesting messages have been published on the Hugin
site.
First, a blog has been launched to provide regular news on Hugin and related open source tools such as panotools. It is called “This week in panospace”.
Second, as part of the upcoming stable release 0.7.0 enfuse will be incorporated which permits to blend images with different exposures. It resembles HDR but is geared towards panorama photography. On that subject a nice tutorial has been written which gives at the same time a nice overview of how to work with Hugin.
Links:
Hugin blog
Tutorial on enfuse
Tags: hugin, panorama
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