[HDR-photo] Starting out...

[Keith Henson]

I haven't been using Ghost removal as I find it can leave a distinct black 
grain where it's working - there are times when I like the blurred figures 
and what I've started doing is then choose the best regular file and bring 
through the figures from that through into the HDR created image. That way I 
get real time and HDR in one image.

I do all of my B&W work in CS2 using the seperated channels - but I'll give 
PM's Desaturation a try now it's been mentioned.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Royce Howland" <royce at cospring.com>
To: "High Dynamic Range Photography" <hdr-photo at hdr-photography.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [HDR-photo] Starting out...


> Ferrell McCollough wrote:
>> [...] I'm now wondering if the uncropped pano's with outside transparency 
>> could be a problem.
>
> It's possible. To be honest I've never used the uncropped, layered pano 
> output. I get the stitch right, as much as possible, in the stitcher. If 
> the stitcher doesn't permit me to do that on a regular basis, I don't use 
> it. Patching stuff in Photoshop is time consuming and I want to spend most 
> of my PS time doing "positive" work to present the final form of the 
> image, not cleaning up the glitches of other software. :)
>
>> Your images are spectacular, Canada is beautiful. Your a trooper to be in 
>> the cold shooting, brrrr......
>
> Thanks. Not a fan of winter? Shocking! :)
>
>> I will also be looking into Panorama Factory,
>
> I like the tool, it produces very smooth tonality in blend regions, has 
> good detail, and has a very useful tile-based fine tuning mechanism as 
> opposed simply to the control point editor used by most stitchers.
>
> But it does have its limitations also. In particular, it can only directly 
> handle single-row pano's, and doesn't directly support stitching multiple 
> projects with the same set of control points. You can fake it into doing 
> both of these things with some goofing around, and so far it has been 
> worth my time to do so for the results I can get.
>
> I do need to save some workflow time of my big HDR pano's, though, which 
> is why I'm looking at Autopano Pro...
>
> Royce Howland
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