Saturday, 30 March 2013

Panoramic Photo stitch of my Garden


What a fantastic day in the garden - the first for almost a month. Blue sky, singing birds, lovely yellow daffs and purple crocus eye candy. You can't see the details but they are there! A fantastic day for me to take a series of photos and make the latest panoramic stitch of my garden.


Next time I am going to stand in the opposite corner so the garden is all visible from the other side.

I've got really good at taking photographs for making panoramic photo stitches. 
By making them from my own photos I've learned that it's all about what I do when I take the photo's and not so much about what I take the photos on. 
I'm doing another blog post on how to so everyone can have a go.

This stitch is done using Autostitch - you can download the free trial version here http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html
This free software will give you a file good enough for your screen. If you really get the bug and want to have files good enough to make prints from, you have a number of options. Buy the software, recent versions of photo shop have a very good stitch tool or you can pop into Robbies where I will do a stitch for you. 

After I took these photos I planted my broad beans, even though it was freezing! The beans can't wait any longer. It's British summer time next week and the days are now longer than the nights. Plant much later and there won't be enough time for them to grow.
its been so cold this March that my garden looks almost the same as it did in February. So when it finally warms up I am expecting a flower explosion. February, March and April flowers all at the same time.