Posted by Basil Greber on December 25, 2007 at 2:20 PM
Hi all
First of all, merry christmas to everybody - and happy new year!
I recently received AutopanoPro for Mac as my birthday present, and it rocks for pano stitching, no doubt. But they claim that their product can do HDR stitching, so I guess it should also do "simple" HDRs reasonably well.
Not quite. At least not in my hands. Compared to Photomatix, for example, the results I receive from AutopanoPro are quite poor. I tried it with this shot (it's two exposures blended via a mask; input to AutopanoPro were the two shots):
and what I got was a file without any yellow color in the sky, and an almost black house. Plus artefacts in the sky. Plus color saturation in the foreground was completely lost. And the application seems to distort the image (even when I use a planar projection).
So, can anybody here help me? Any samples of what can be done with the application (in terms of HDR/HDR stitching - normal pano stitching works like a charm, as said above)?
Thanks a lot!
Basil
Posted by Guy Tal on December 26, 2007 at 11:08 AM
I wasn't too impressed with their HDR capabilities either. I use the product strictly for stitching, with no color correction, which is what it does best.
Guy
Posted by Wim Reyns on December 27, 2007 at 5:38 AM
I'm with Guy here, i only use the program for stitching, i will do my color correction in PS CS3 and if i need a HDR i'll use photomatix pro.
Wim
Posted by Basil Greber on December 27, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Thanks guys. Looks like I'm not alone here.
Basil
Posted by Kalin Wilson on December 31, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Basil,
One way I've used autopano with HDR is to stitch the different exposures. You can batch a bunch of images and tell autopano, through the layer editor, to output different files per group. Still, I've had limited luck with this as it seems that some auto correction happens with the stitch/blend as sometimes the different files look much the same.
Generally, like Guy, I just use it for the stitching and maybe color correction to smooth the blend. For HDR I stitch a pano for each exposure then blend the panos in Photomatix. Lately, I've had the best luck doing the exposure blend myself in CS3 before stitching in autopano. There are certainly plenty of ways to skin this cat!
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4 repliesFirst of all, merry christmas to everybody - and happy new year!
I recently received AutopanoPro for Mac as my birthday present, and it rocks for pano stitching, no doubt. But they claim that their product can do HDR stitching, so I guess it should also do "simple" HDRs reasonably well.
Not quite. At least not in my hands. Compared to Photomatix, for example, the results I receive from AutopanoPro are quite poor. I tried it with this shot (it's two exposures blended via a mask; input to AutopanoPro were the two shots):
http://n.ethz.ch/student/bgreber/gastlosen07/pages/DSC_8499.html
and what I got was a file without any yellow color in the sky, and an almost black house. Plus artefacts in the sky. Plus color saturation in the foreground was completely lost. And the application seems to distort the image (even when I use a planar projection).
So, can anybody here help me? Any samples of what can be done with the application (in terms of HDR/HDR stitching - normal pano stitching works like a charm, as said above)?
Thanks a lot!
Basil
Guy
Wim
Basil
One way I've used autopano with HDR is to stitch the different exposures. You can batch a bunch of images and tell autopano, through the layer editor, to output different files per group. Still, I've had limited luck with this as it seems that some auto correction happens with the stitch/blend as sometimes the different files look much the same.
Generally, like Guy, I just use it for the stitching and maybe color correction to smooth the blend. For HDR I stitch a pano for each exposure then blend the panos in Photomatix. Lately, I've had the best luck doing the exposure blend myself in CS3 before stitching in autopano. There are certainly plenty of ways to skin this cat!