[HDR-photo] Processing Large Batches with Photomatix

[Bill Knight]

Same with me. I am getting 15 a day
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  From: chris shaw 
  To: High Dynamic Range Photography 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:52 PM
  Subject: Re: [HDR-photo] Processing Large Batches with Photomatix


  WHOMEVER IS SENDING THESE emails TO ME CEASE AND DESIST!!!


  On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Christian Bloch <Blochi at blochi.com> wrote:

    Hi Rodrigo,

    Sorry for the late answer.


      1. I start with all the RAW Exposure Brackets in one folder


    When I shoot RAWs, I previously develop them in Lightroom to batch adjust White Balance, Chromatic Aberration and vignetting. Save as JPEGs (because my D200 shoots every EV anyway). However, most panoramas I shoot with the 10.5mm fisheye, and then I shoot JPEGs.


      2. I run a batch process on Photomatix to generate EXRs and some temporary detail-enhanced JPEGs for stitching (any specific tonemapping settings?).


    No, just default settings. These temps are only for speeding up the stitching process.


      3. Sort by type in Finder/Explorer to separate EXRs and JPEGs into separate folders.


    No, I leave them in the same folder. But since this big folder holds all images from a session, I sort them into one folder per panorama.



      4. Run a stitch on the JPEGs to generate some panorama configuration file ( is it a .pts ???)
             I've tried AutoPano and I'm not very happy. What software are you using?


    Autopano works great for big panos, and partial panos. Fully sphericals I stitch in PTGui Pro.



      5. Open up the .pts file and find and replace the references to the JPEGs for the EXTs


    Simpler: When everything is aligned, I just right-click on each image in the "sources list" in PTGui and replace it there. Then enable Full HDR Stitching.



      6. Render the panorama with the EXRs and produce one panoramic EXR.


    I render the fully blended HDR output as well as the dewarped Layers. Wherever the blend didn't work out, I manually blend in parts from these layers in Photoshop. Also, I use Flexify to fix the nadir and do general clean-up.


             What software?
      7. Tonemap the final EXR



    Exactly.

    Best regards,
    Blochi



      Sounds right?

      Best,

      -Rodrigo




        Message: 2
        Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:34:05 -0700
        From: Christian Bloch <Blochi at Blochi.com>
        Subject: Re: [HDR-photo] Processing Large Batches with Photomatix
        To: High Dynamic Range Photography <hdr-photo at hdr-photography.com>
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        I tend to organize my sequences into larger folders first, just by the
        number of brackets. So I have one 5er / 7er / 9er folder. Run the
        batch on those, saving EXR and Proxy-JPEGs with Detail Enhancer. After
        that's done I sort the results into Panorama-folders, run the stitch
        on the JPGs and swap with EXRs for final.

        Not sure if this helps, you seem to have a particular workflow in mind.

        -Blochi

        On May 18, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Drew Fulton wrote:


          Hello,

          I have returned from a trip where I have shot a large number of HDR
          Panoramas.  I have currently organized them into a series of folders
          as such.

          Parent Folder (Number of Exposures, ie 3)  --> Location (Forest Shot
          1, Forest #2, Forest #3, etc)

          So under my 3 Exposure folder I have like 20 folders each with
          varying number of files.  Sometimes the panorama was 3 frames (x3
          exposures = 9 files) and sometimes it may have been 5 (x3 =15
          frames).  Regardless, I still have to go through and run a batch
          process to create HDR files on every single one of the folders.  I
          would like to point the Batch processor to the 3 folder, tell it to
          process each subfolder and output the same directory structure.  For
          example, I'd like the files to be end up in their own folders like I
          have them organized originally (Forest 1, Forest 2, Forest 3).

          I thought that by clicking the Process Subfolders this might work
          but it doesn't seem to do it.  Can anyone offer any suggestions?

          Thanks!
          Drew



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