Observations about the universe, life, Lausanne and me

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Cumulonimbus

It's true: always take your camera. This one was taken with my Canon Ixus 870IS. Had to do a panorama to get the whole thundercloud in. Unfortunately I tilted the camera a bit while taking the photo - I was perching precariously on the roof of a bicycle stand at the EPFL - hence the distortion at the bottom.




The colours were brilliant, so brilliant in fact: I desaturated the photo a bit in Picasa, it looked too kitschy.

Addendum 7/11/2009 1105h:

Thanks Armin for telling me about Panoramastudio, a much better stitching software than Photostitch. It has built-in distortion correction, and came up with this:




This time I left the colours as they were, so you can see it in all it's kitschy glory. Makes you wonder why there is no unicorn...

2 comments:

  1. very nice!

    did you try panorama studio? you can set a horizon. lens correction + own corrections if you don't like the suggestions, which are 95% cool.

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  2. Thanks for the tip, that is indeed a much better program than what I've been using!

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