As I am the creator of PhotoEngine, you may not believe me if I tell you it is the fastest, most accurate and most natural HDR tool available! It is anyway easy to verify these claims: download the trials of PhotoEngine and Autopano Giga and read this tutorial. This tool exists: it is Kolor Autopano Giga.įor the HDR and Tone Mapping phase, I will use PhotoEngine in this tutorial.
In order to achieve that I needed a panorama tool that was able to manipulate bracketed photo sets, stack them automatically, stitch each exposure set separately and save the panorama as multiple exposure layers instead of a single image.
Assemble the three or more panoramas in PhotoEngine to build the final HDR panorama. Create a panorama for each bracketed exposure (one for all the photos at -2EV, one for 0EV, one for +2EV). Rule 2: never use a panorama tool to create and edit an HDR image. Panorama tools are very good at creating panoramas but cannot do HDR images (or are very bad at it)īased on these unique and profound thoughts, I have created the two rules of successful HDR Panoramic Photography!. PhotoEngine is very good at HDR but cannot stich images. The good question was in fact: what is the right tool for the job? To find out what is the best workflow, I have tested all of the above and many other variations. Should I create sets of 32-bit Radiance or OpenEXR images then stitch in a panorama tool? And then, back to PhotoEngine for tone mapping?. Should I first stitch and build a 32-bit image in a panorama tool and then edit in PhotoEngine?. Should I first create HDR images and Tone Map in PhotoEngine then stitch in a panorama tool?. Should I do everything in a panorama tool?. Like many other photographers, I had several unanswered questions regarding HDR Panoramic Photography. With the right workflow and the right tools, HDR panoramas are easy and fun to create.Īs the CEO of Oloneo and main developer of PhotoEngine, I know quite a bit about HDR Photography but I am not an expert in Panoramic Photography. Mixing the two techniques must end up in a complete mess, right? Wrong! HDR Photography is based on photo bracketing. Panoramic photography requires taking several photos.
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