I have tried a couple of photosynths inside today and I have got some better results. I photographed the lab I am working along with all of its mess, I took panoramas of the room in the centre and from various points around the room, I then took some detail shots of different things.
I have now got to synths of the same room on my profile because the system doesn’t allow you to edit existing work, what would be good is if it could detect similarities between your work and combine them.
The better one of the two is embedded below.
A wile ago I came across Microsoft’s Photosynth, at the time I thought it was particularly strange; sometime after I came across it again and finally realized how amazing it was, since then I have been eagerly awating the release of the system to the public.
This morning I noticed several posts about Photosynth but I was in a rush so didn’t realize what had happened, it was when I got into work that I received the amazing news that Photosynth is finally here.
If you have no idea what Photosynth is I suggest you go an take a look although if you have a Mac you can read about it instead at Wikipedia, no Mac or Linux support I am afraid.
Rather than uploading the photos to Microsoft through the website you need to install a piece of software, I am unclear at this stage wether the software processes the images locally or acts as a facility for uploading them although I suspect it just uploads them, this then leads to the question of how long will Photosynth’s take to generate when they have been uploaded.
I will have the answer to all of these questions and more at the weekend, I was planning on spending the day taking photos and trying out my new tripod anyway now I have an even better task. Hopefully weather depending I will have my first Photosynth up at the weekend.
Today I finally bought a decent tripod, when I say decent I mean a lot better than my previous one but sill a long way off the high end ones.
For years I have been using cheap little £30 tripods, it didn’t go very high and wasn’t very stable but it did the job, especially recently when I have been playing with HDR images and needed a stable image for each exposure.
The one thing I have found the most annoying with the old tripod is its height, I had to put it on a table to use or sit on the ground which was a little awkward and put me off using it.
The new tripod is a Manfrotto, the base is a 190 and the head is a 804RC2, they are significantly heavier which may put me off taking it as much but I hope it will give me better results.
I am planning on finding somewhere at the weekend and going out and taking some photos, now with a stable base I can try longer exposures and try and get a crisper hdr shot.
