Photography

Panoramic photos with Hugin

Hugin is a panorama photo stitcher. Given a number of overlapping photographs, preferably of the same exposure, Hugin: Finds the control points which tie the images, Optimizes the images for stitching by distorting them to fit, Stitches them together, Blends the joins. Thankfully, it has a wizard which takes care […]

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KTM 950 Supermoto in a Cotswold sunset

I took a beautiful ride in the Cotswolds this evening on my KTM 950 Supermoto. What a privilege it is to live in such countryside and to have such a magnificent bike: KTM 950 Supermoto in a Cotswold sunset, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. The roads were superb: open, clear and […]

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Flickr ‘interestingness’

Airliner over the moon, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. The photo sharing service Flickr figures out how interesting each photo is. My photo stream by interestingness: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjbaker/stats/allphotos/interestingness/. The airliner over the moon comes out on top.

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Zauchensee Panorama

Inspired by the documentation for Wee Planets, I created this panorama with Hugin, an outstanding tool for aligning, joining, blending and correcting images. I simply followed the installation instructions and threw six relatively carelessly-taken photos at it to obtain this result. It was reported as a “very bad fit” by […]

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Feasible Easter skiing?

Wanderung 37, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. The runs in this shot are presently closed, but covered in snow, horrible melting snow. If the temperature drops and a little snow falls, an Easter ski here may yet be feasible.

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Austrian wood stack

Woodstack 8, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Found a wood stack facing the sun and attempted to produce some shots suitable for desktop backgrounds.

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