Here are the two original images used to make the panorama at the bottom. These were taken from Sandia Peak overlooking Albuquerque. The haze is due to the fall and winter inversion Albuquerque suffers from. Shots were with a Canon Digital Rebel using the lense that comes with the kit zoomed out to 18mm. This is comparable to a 28 mm lense on a 35mm camera.
Hugin version 0.3 was used to perform the 'stitching', or combining of the two images into a single panorama. In the panorama itself, the GIMP was used to crop, increase contrast, and increase saturation.
Note the tram cables at the bottom. If you zoom in, you can just make out one of the trams on the cables. You should also note that they are at different angles in the left and right images. This shows how much the stitching software must "warp" the images to make them fit together. In the hi resolution panorama itself, if you zoom in, you can also see where the stitching software didn't quite line it up. A little more work on my part (adding more "control points") should fix this, I believe. This is still pretty darned good for free (as in gpl) software that is in development!
All images now considered public domain.
Click on any of theses images to see the higher resolution image actually used. Right-click and "Save Link Target As..." to download the higher resolution image to your computer.
This is the left hand image used.
This is the right hand image used.
This is the panorama created by stitching the left and right images together. Note the lines I left in the sky in the center that hugin could not fix.
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Although I don't include the images that make it up and have scaled back the resolution quite a bit for file size, here's another stitched panorama. I did not manually touch up this one either, but used enblend to adjust color at the edges and so lines are much less visible where the stitching occurred. The images were taken from about 5 miles away with a handheld telephoto:
