![]() With the open-source tools at your disposal, I'd go with option 3. Depending on the projection you use, it might be quite difficult to edit out the tripod – think about how huge and stretched Antarctica is in most map projections! If you're doing one of those 'little planet' projections, though, it should be no trouble at all. Stitching all the images (including nadir shots) in Hugin, leaving the nadir shots un-edited, saving it as a low-dynamic-range (8-bit) image, and then editing out the tripod in GIMP. Yes, that's a tough problem – you have the option ofĮditing the three bracketed nadir shots separately in GIMP (bad idea, because you'll never be able to rubber-stamp exactly the same pattern in each exposure).Ĭreating tone-mapped stacks of each individual tile, then editing the nadir shots in GIMP and stitching them in Hugin (not recommended, especially if you're using tone mapping operators such as Mantiuk06 and Fattal – they will take matters into their own hands and really muck around with the exposure, particularly at the edges of the image, so when you go to stitch the image, you'll get all sorts of patches with dissimilar brightness). I did learn quite a bit from the other questions as well. If anyone is willing to clarify my confusion I would be grateful. Also by HDR I probably mean Exposure Fusion instead. What knowledge am I missing? How do you reconcile a good work flow to make a well tone mapped HDR 360 panorama with edited out tripod from bracketed exposure shot in raw format using tools like Hugin, The GIMP, etc.?ĮDIT: After reading a little further into the above question and this question I realize that I'm not asking a direct question here but clarification into a specific workflow that uses the workflows described in the other questions together. So if I was making just a simple HDR photo or horizontal panorama either HDR first or stitch first works however if you need to edit the Nadir shot prior to stitching (as needed in a 360 panorama) then you run into the chicken before the egg problem. However that idea did not pan out either.įirst what is the difference between a bracketed exposure stack and an HDR image? Also if editing the nadir in order to stitch I have to tone map and if using The GIMP downgrade to an 8-bit image losing all the data that Hugin would have needed to have for best alignment and exposure blending. For example: I don't understand why there are so many HDR programs (ie luminescence) when Hugin is there for just such a stacked project. I think my confusion comes from my limited understanding of what bracketed shots are and how to use them. This become very complicated if I take exposure bracketed shots and attempt to build what I believe is called an HDR Panorama. I do my best to take out the tripod and pano-head by rotating Nadir1 on top of Nadir2 and mask out what I can. In my current workflow I have to edit the nadir shot(s) using The GIMP. ![]() After reading the thread about HDR Panorama workflow I was a bit confused. ![]()
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