Fall Creek Falls Panorama

About a week ago we went to Fall Creek Falls State Park with some friends. Becca did some great blogging of our trip, so I won't go over it all again. But I did want to post some of the photos I took at the top of the fire tower. We went to the fire tower for a virtual geocache. I usually don't like virtual caches, but this one was a great excuse to visit a part of the park that we would have never explored otherwise. I wanted to try to make a panoramic picture, so I stood in one place and took a bunch of photos. The picture above is the result; I think it looks pretty cool. The view wasn't spectacular, but it's nice to get a full perspective of the whole scenery. This is a relatively low-resolution version, since the full image was huge.

I got the idea to make a panoramic picture from a Lifehacker article I read a few weeks ago. I used a program called AutoStitch, which was incredibly easy to use.* The program was developed by a guy at the University of British Columbia, and you can download a free version. You just put all the photos in a folder, tell the program where the folder is, and it puts them all together and blends the edges. Then all you have to do is crop the section you want to use, and presto.
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* AutoStitch only works on Windows, but there are other programs, like Hugin, which work on Windows, Linux, and Mac. However, I think AutoStitch is a lot easier to use. It seriously did all the work for me, which was pretty cool. Another fine product of Canadian ingenuity!