You’ll need to add the equirectangular tag to your image and refresh the page. You an upload your image to Flickr as a PNG and the site can display your image in a 360 view. I have a few suggestions and there are other ways to do this. Once you have your image all cleaned up you’ll want to share it with folks. Personally I used Pixelmator Pro and do a light pass in editing. I’m skipping details here because personal preferences differ when it comes to editing software and depending on where and when your image was taken you may have more or less editing to do. Load the TIFF image into your favorite image editor of choice and go to town. Maybe remove an errant bird or adjust the colors. A terrible photo but illustrative of why you shouldn’t frame your photo this way! □ Cleanupįrom here you might need to touch things up. I have my subject (a house) right below the drone and the sun blaring at the camera. So here’s an 360 image where I break the rules when we first began. If you don’t need/want such a large file, you can always adjust the canvas size in the Stitcher. Most times the blended version is the best. One will just have the prefix, the other _blended_fused. By default this will be in the same folder where you saved your project file. Once complete you’ll have two big TIFF files. Then away it goes! This will take some time. You can leave this as the default or change it to your liking. Hit Stitch! And you’ll be asked to specify the prefix for your images. So I suggest checking the “Exposure fused from any arrangement” option as well. One exposure corrected with low dynamic range and the other fused from any arrangement. I find it helpful to export two versions. If you see the Top setting under Crop set to anything other than zero, change it to zero. ![]() Hugin likes to be helpful and crop out the top of the image where there is no sky (Dones can’t look up!). The Width, and the Height should be at a ratio of 2:1. For Canvas Size click “Calculate optimal size”. Check these settings in System Preferences>Security & Privacy.įorm here, make sure the projection is set to Equirectangular. You’ll also want to make sure Hugin has Full Disk Access as noted above. It’s unfortunately still out-of-date compared to the Linux and Windows releases.Īs noted on Hugin’s download section, “On Mac OS 10.15 Catalina and later you will need to manually grant Hugin “Full Disk Access” in the Privacy tab of the OS X System Preferences, Security & Privacy.” Since we’re using an out-of-date and not well supported version of Hugin on the Mac, you’ll want to right-click on the Hugin.app and select Open or else you’ll get a scary warning about it not being trusted (you can trust it). If you’re using a Mac with a Retina (HiDPI screen) display you’ll want to grab a beta release that fixes an issue with Macs with this screen. Speaking of Macs, the most recent version of Hugin for Mac was last updated in February of 2019. I’m doing this all on a Mac, but the interface and steps are generally the same. I’m going to focus on the settings that I think are important, but please do read up on all the software can do. 4 It’s a powerful tool with many knobs and dials. Hugin is an open-source panorama photo stitcher. You have a folder of DNGs that are waiting to be stitched together. Now you have your drone up in the sky, positioned nicely and you’ve taken some photos. It will hover in place and rotate both the gimbal and drone to get as much coverage as possible. Once ready, hit the red record button and let the drone take the photos. Once positioned, switch the mode to Pano and select Sphere. You have to learn the rules before you can break them. I did not do this perfectly with my image above of the Fort, but you can see that the sun is off to the left from where my drone was. Don’t have both your POI and the sun in the same direction. ![]() Make sure the drone is between the sun and the point of interest. It helps make sure your POI gets the best coverage of direct photos. Do not place your drone directly above the point of interest! You want to position the drone away from direct center. Position your drone somewhere near the object or location you want to take a panorama of. Time to write it all down for myself and if I’m lucky to help others too. I’ve done this a few times and each time I have to remember all the steps. So what is a person to do? Enter open-source tools! ![]() ![]() The Mini 2 does have a nifty feature to take all 26 photos needed for a complete 360 view, in the DNG format, but it can’t stitch it together for you. One of the downsides is that the onboard software will stitch a 360 degree panorama for you, but only at a lower resolution. While not the fanciest of drones it does a pretty good job for the price point. About a year ago I got into drone photography with my first drone, a tiny DJI Mini 2.
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