Panoramic HDR's

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Just musing at the moment. But if i were to create one of these, what would be the best way of doing it?

  1. Create panoramas of different exposures and merge as HDR.

    or

  2. Creat multiple HDR's and then stitch them together to forma a panorama.
 
In my mind the logical workflow would be shoot, stitch, process. HDR is a part of the final processing to me, so I'd do it that way round.

The only reason I can see not to do it the other way though is that any minor re-aligning done by the HDR software might create problems for the stitching program but only if you shot hand held. :shrug:
 
bass_junkie83 said:
Just musing at the moment. But if i were to create one of these, what would be the best way of doing it?

  1. Create panoramas of different exposures and merge as HDR.

    or
  2. Creat multiple HDR's and then stitch them together to forma a panorama.
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Well - only time I did something like this was for the Panoramas round of the POTY competition this year...

This was a 13 exposure panoramic merge. In order to minimise the movement in the clouds, I actually shot the images in RAW, then did a +2ev, 0 and -2ev conversion in ACR - each 3 image group was passed into Photomatix separately, and converted using the same settings, again, saving the combined shots. The final 13 HDR images were opened in CS5 and merged into a final panorama.

I did actually try it the other way around - merging the -2ev, 0 and +2ev panoramas together, then feeding them into photomatix, but the differing merge lines ended up creating more ghosting. Of course, it probably depends on the image, and the level of micro-detail involved - for my shot, with the number of regular blocks making up the viaduct, it showed all the "wobbles".
 
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