1. Does this sound like a workable "work around" to my exposure issues?
2. Should I save my horizontal pano as its own file and then pull it back into PTGui and add the zenith shots to that?
3. Or should I just add my zenith shots to the currently well-aligned horizontal pano that I have in my current PTGui project and re-align them all together?
John, Tracking. I tried this and ran into an interesting anomaly that actually helps things. I loaded my horizontal exposures (just one, not the whole set) and spent some time linking and lining them up until I had a very nice pano, even though it had no sky and no floor. But so far, so good. I then brought in my sky shots (same thing - just one exposure, the same as the horizontal set that I had brought in) and then I brought in my nadir shots. I didn't add a single control point and did NOT run the optimizer (even though I was prompted to) and when I previewed my now complete pano, it was almost perfect.
The only issue I had was with some slightly odd exposure between one image and another.
In other words, everything lined up with no intervention from me. To see what would happen, I then ran the optimizer... It returned an "very bad" report on my pano in red and mixed up all the shots!
I undid it and am happily now just adding the final touches to this my first pano in 3 days.... but I was wondering why this is.
On 31 Oct 2015, at 17:45, jstu...@goldeneraproductions.org wrote:
- OR, save each of my bracketed exposures as a 16-bit TIFF file after this ACR processing step (giving me what could be upwards of 100 images, depending on the coverage of my lens) and bring those into PTGui.
Definitely try this. PTGui can do really excellent work with bracketed input and high dynamic range output if you give it the right raw materials. Yes, you'll be dealing with a lot of files, but do try it and see what the output is like.
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