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I've finally got this panoramic image of the interior of St Fillians Kirk, Aberdour, Fife stitched as a 360 degree "HDR" panorama.
a bigger version (1600x1200) can be viewed here:
http://www.brianinnesphotography.co.uk/temp/kirk-mercartor3final_fused-edited1600x1200.jpg
3 bracketed exposures for each image. Pentax K100D with sigma 10-20mm @10mm on a Nodal Ninja 3, 50 images in all. 3 images bracketed every 90 degrees at 45deg tilt upwards, 3 images bracketed every 45 degrees at 0 tilt, then 3 bracketed images every 90 degrees at -45 degree tilt, plus 3 bracketed at -90 degree tilt to get the floor.
Stitched using Hugin to seperate exposure layers, these were then combined using enfuse, then PP to remove tripod feet etc in Gimp.
What I've learned from this - a remote release is needed as holding down the shutter button on my camera gave a bit of shake / misalignment - hugin took care of this when aligning the bracketed exposures, but it's not perfect in the original full size image. I might restitch this later using a different projection as I've currently used "Mercator" projection hence the "artistic but distorted" look.
I also should have set the camera to take a wider bracketed exposure of say -2, 0, and +2 ev to try and get more detail in the stained glass windows.
But, this is my first time attempting a hdr panorama, it's a lot of work first aligning the exposure stacks, then aligning each stack to give stitched panorama.
Feedback welcome.
a bigger version (1600x1200) can be viewed here:
http://www.brianinnesphotography.co.uk/temp/kirk-mercartor3final_fused-edited1600x1200.jpg
3 bracketed exposures for each image. Pentax K100D with sigma 10-20mm @10mm on a Nodal Ninja 3, 50 images in all. 3 images bracketed every 90 degrees at 45deg tilt upwards, 3 images bracketed every 45 degrees at 0 tilt, then 3 bracketed images every 90 degrees at -45 degree tilt, plus 3 bracketed at -90 degree tilt to get the floor.
Stitched using Hugin to seperate exposure layers, these were then combined using enfuse, then PP to remove tripod feet etc in Gimp.
What I've learned from this - a remote release is needed as holding down the shutter button on my camera gave a bit of shake / misalignment - hugin took care of this when aligning the bracketed exposures, but it's not perfect in the original full size image. I might restitch this later using a different projection as I've currently used "Mercator" projection hence the "artistic but distorted" look.
I also should have set the camera to take a wider bracketed exposure of say -2, 0, and +2 ev to try and get more detail in the stained glass windows.
But, this is my first time attempting a hdr panorama, it's a lot of work first aligning the exposure stacks, then aligning each stack to give stitched panorama.
Feedback welcome.
