Wide angle photos are all the rage in the real estate world these days.  And it should be.  A good wide angled shot shows alot more of the room than a traditional photo.  Everyone loves those bedroom corner pictures, right?

Wide angle photos aren't just for shooting real estate, either.  They work for, well, almost everything, and getting more into a shot is pretty much always a good thing.  But even though digital cameras with wide angle ability are starting to come down in price, they're still pretty pricey.  And let's not get into what it costs for a wide angle lens, if you camera can take a add-on lens.

Wouldn't it be great if you could take great wide angle shots with a regular digital camera.  Well, now you can.

Simply go to autostitch.net and download the demo (windows only).  Now, it says demo, but it's a fully functioning, but barebones, program.  What does it do? 

It turns these

 Into THIS

Pretty Cool, huh!

The thing is, it is REALLY, REALLY Simple to use, too.  All you have to do is A) take some pictures that are connected in some way, and B) load them into Autostitch and hit the "Stitch" button.  There is an options tab and it has a bunch of technical stuff on it (and if anyone wants to tell us what they all do, that'd be great!), but the only thing I do is set it to output at 100% ratio (the first block after hitting options).  If the pictures can be stitched, it does the work.

So these three pictures go from looking like this:

To looking like this:

Okay, it really comes out looking like this:

But all you have to do is throw that pic into your favorite photo editing program, do quick crop on it and then it looks like

Try it out for yourself and see what you can do with it.  It's fast, easy and free.  What's not to love?

Copyright© 2009 Get Great Wide Angle Photos without a Wide Angle Camera by Roger A. Johnson