David Marine
Posts: 37
Location: Austin, TX, United States
Registered: 24 Dec 2006
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HDR Feedback Appreciated...
Posted: 8 Nov 2007 at 19:10 GMT
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I have long been using the HDR technique when creating my panos and always try to achieve a realistic effect.
I'd appreciate feedback on whether I met this goal with my latest work:
www.vrroadtrip.com/texas/bastropSP/4/pano.html
As always, thanks!
- David
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gus
Posts: 385
Location: United Kingdom
Registered: 19 Jun 2007
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Re: HDR Feedback Appreciated...
Posted: 8 Nov 2007 at 19:52 GMT
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David,
Lovely blue skies, looks very realistic.
And you did a good job to place the tripod strategically to avoid shadows.
Took long to download though, 4.7mb is bit bigger than I would want to put online personally.....
Nice work!
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Scott Dreslinski
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Location: Rochester Hills, MI, United States
Registered: 30 Jan 2007
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Re: HDR Feedback Appreciated...
Posted: 8 Nov 2007 at 20:15 GMT
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I like it David.
What is your HDR technique?
ptgui pro? Photomatrix?
Blend, then stitch, or stitch, then blend?
-2 to +2??
Thanks,
Scott
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David Marine
Posts: 37
Location: Austin, TX, United States
Registered: 24 Dec 2006
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Re: HDR Feedback Appreciated...
Posted: 8 Nov 2007 at 20:54 GMT
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Thank you!
I've had to work hard to control my impulse to over use HDR. I think many of my older panos on the same site are a wee bit over the line. One problem I run into is my laptop's LCD panel is a bit undersaturated, leading me to create panos that are oversaturated on most other displays.
I use three bracketed exposures (-1/0/+1) and Photomatix first to create the HDR tone-mapped images, which I then stitch with PTGui.
- David
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David Marine
Posts: 37
Location: Austin, TX, United States
Registered: 24 Dec 2006
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Re: HDR Feedback Appreciated...
Posted: 8 Nov 2007 at 21:00 GMT
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Thanks for the feedback!
I agree 4.7mb is too large. I should have paid better attention to the size. It's all the fine detail in the rocks and pine needles that bumps the size up even though I used the same compression levels which produced smaller panos with less detail.
- David
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