PanoTools:
Re: Blending Large Overlaps
Geraldine Joffre 2006-Jun-12 08:09:50
--- In #removed#, jeffrey <panoramas@...> wrote:
> > This is incorrect. Photomatix offers 5 methods for blending
exposures,
> > each one based on a different algorithm. Then it also offers a
> > tonemapping and a 48-bit compression algorithm.
>
> What I meant was - it offers only one tonemapping algorithm, but there
> are many available.
Yes, because most of those other tonemapping algorithms produce less
good results than exposure blending, from a photographer's point of
view at least (whether a result is good or not is of course subjective).
Try those other tonemapping algorithms (with Artizen HDR for instance)
and then compare with blending the exposures automatically in
Photomatix, or manually in Photoshop, or with Jook's HDR for dummies
action, and you will probably see that the simple and proven method of
blending exposures works better in most cases.
> I like the "average"
> function, but the other ones imo seem unnatural to me.
I don't have the impression that you tried the most used exposure
blending function of Photomatix named "H&S - Auto". People like it
precisely because it gives results that look natural. Moreover, it is
more convenient for panographers than tonemapping because it does not
require to stitch differently exposed panos. You only need to stitch
the images resulting from combining the bracketed shots in Photomatix.
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