My First HDR Pano

[canonloader]

This is roughly a 180 degree pano, slightly less, shot with the Tokina 12-24 @ 15mm on the 1D Classic. I did use a pan head tripod, leveled and the nodal point centered. I think this does help, although not strictly necessary unless there is something in the foreground.

Processing went, load the RAW's into Photomatix and save the renders as TIF's. Open those in CS3 to merge them, save the merge as a tif, open that in ACR as a RAW again, adjust light, brightness, exposure and such. Open that in CS3, run some Levels then save it as a JPG and save a small and large version for the forum. I didn't sharpen this

Here's the small one, click on it for a larger view.

http://www.picturelacrosse.com/pano/trains/small/freighthouse-train1-102508sm.jpg (http://www.picturelacrosse.com/pano/trains/large/freighthouse-train1-102508.jpg)

[zacker]

looks good mitch. very curvy...lol

[canonloader]

I guess that's what you get when using a wide angle lens for Panos. :)

[Kronie]

There not that bad once you do them a few times. Just lots of steps and one huge tiff.

[canonloader]

It was all pretty straight forward. Just a matter of making HDR's from the RAWs, then merging the TIFF's in CS3. Using a wide angle made it easier, as I only needed three sets for the whole thing. But, it does make it look more bent. :)