hugin

[Michael]

luminance hdr works again. I wonder what changed?

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> When you do the final stitching you have to check off what kind of output
> you want.  By default it will give you a jpg or tiff, but if you look
> further down the  stitching page you will find "High dynamic range merged
> stacks".
>
> That being said, I don't think that this is what you think it is.  That
> will output a HDR file which is an image that contains a lot more light
> data than can be viewed directly in an image viewer.  They are used heavily
> in programs like blender or in video games.
>
> What you are looking for is called tone mapping where you compress a
> broader level of light data into a visible space, which is what
> LuminanceHDR does.
>
> I would stick with LuminanceHDR and just use it's interface to hugin to
> align images properly.
>
> doing it the other way around you would still have to load the HDR file
> that hugin makes into LuminanceHDR so that you could get a visible image
> out of it.
>
> All that being said, you could select the "Exposure fused stack" option in
> hugin and get an HDR image, but you have little to no control of how the
> output will look, so you are better off using LuminanceHDR again.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 06/22/2016 02:22 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> I just found out you can do HDR with hugin.
>
> How do you do it? I found the instructions but:
>
>    1. Take bracketed <http://wiki.panotools.org/Bracketing> shots of your
>    scene.
>    done
>
>    2. Open bracketed images in Hugin. Align - let's say - the middle
>    exposures together and set the stacks in the *Images* tab.
>       1. If your stacks don't align (shot hand-held, sloppy panohead,
>       etc.), set some control points inside stacks and align them too.
>       done.... not sure about 'set[ting] the stack in the *Images* tab'
>
>       3. Stitch the panorama with hugin <http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin>
>     and
>    done
>    4. enblend <http://wiki.panotools.org/Enblend> to HDR file.
>    not done. how?
>    5.
>    6. Optionally tonemap the result with qtpfsgui
>    <http://wiki.panotools.org/Qtpfsgui>.
>
>
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