HDRi and Stitching in Photoshop CS3/CS4 ???

[sanfairyanne]

Having recently been given a 5d I'm obviously a complete novice but I've done some stitch work in CS3. I noticed under ''Automate'' in CS3 there's an option to use HDR, not knowing a thing about this I did some research and find it very interesting. HDR would appear to do away entirely with the need for graduated neutral density filters.
I wonder whether it's possibly to stitch images as well as combine HDR. I realise that for say a 3 image stitch you would also need to bracket a stop either side (or more) for each image. So your going to be needing masses of storage. Nine images in RAW on a 5d would just about fill a third of a 512mb card.

Anyone had any experience of stitching HDR?

Thanks

[sanfairyanne]

Hey sorry I guess I should have put this post under ''Digital Image Processing'' instead of under Camera Raw.

[markhout]

Anyone had any experience of stitching HDR?

Yes, there is plenty of experience around here.

By way of example:



Click here for all tech details.

Mark

[sanfairyanne]

Mark,

That's a wonderful image, I'm lucky enough to be able to take six months off this year and spend the entire summer/fall around Utah, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. As a novice I'm busy learning all I can, understanding that these sort of photographs are a real possibility is very exciting for me. If I got just one image like this all year it would make me ecstatic.

[fike]

Try ptgui. It enables HDR and stitching in one step.  Then you can open the HDR output and manipulate it in Photomatix or photoshop.