Ironing out some wrinkles in my workflow and trying some new techniques. This is a stereoscopic "little planet" projection of an equirectangular panoramic image shot with a 7 exposure bracket at each pano segment. To really test the new PTGui (v 10 with GPU support) I dumped all of the Canon 5DIII raw files (about 140) into the project, enabled HDR stitching and hit "go." All I can say is PTGui v10 is a champ. All I had to do was enable viewpoint correction for my nadir shot and add some masking to remove the tripod and it did all the work automagically. This is in large part due to the use of a carefully set up pano head (Nodal Ninja 5). The images were shot with a Zeiss 15mm lens with a vertical FOV of about 100° and a horizontal FOV of about 76° - six images around for three rows: tilted up 45°, level, and tilted down 45°. I also shot two additional nadir shots straight down and a final one with the tripod tilted out of the way to shoot the floor directly below the tripod. Pretty typical workflow, but extra shots (rows) needed because the Zeiss is not a fisheye. Better to be redundant than have that annoying hole in an otherwise good panoramic image.
The image was saved as EXR in PTGui, toned in Photomatix and finished in PS. The stereoscopic projection was made from the equirectangular panorama using Flexify 2.
Fun stuff.
Here is a link to a 4800 px wide equirectangular projection - the original stitch was ~16k px wide:
https://db.tt/wB7eXIlI
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