You should definitely be shooting raw. Apart from the ability to adjust white balance, the amount of exposure latitude in the raw file is typically much greater than what is preserved in an in-camera jpg, especially if you are using a larger sensor camera e.g. DSLR or mirrorless.
In raw development, I often max out highlight recovery and use extensively shadow recovery. This can gain a lot of detail that would normally be lost in standard development. If I bracket, it's usually in steps of 2EV. I usually don't bother with overexposing but mainly care about making sure I don't lose highlight detail, hence may shoot -2EV or -3EV in addition to the autoexposure value. But this all depends on your camera and its sensor characteristics, you may need the +EV brackets if shadow performance isn't good. Lens calibration isn't usually required but could help in some situations where there are not enough control points to give a good lens geometry optimisation. I haven't bothered calibrating my lens, other than inputting the calibrated focal length (as the lens does not transmit metadata to the camera). To make your life easier, I suggest getting a fisheye lens, there are quite a few affordable options. This would reduce the number of shots you need to take as well as reduce the processing time. What output size do you need and what camera are you using? What isn't covered in the articles I mentioned that you'd like to know more about? Have you played around with the example files? On Sunday, 19 December 2021 at 23:59:26 UTC chaosjug wrote: > Hi, > > thanks a lot for your input! > My bracket setting was 0.3EV so no wonder I was missing output layers. I > had > to search a bit, because the german translation is a bit fuzzy. In german > it > is named "Belichtungsebenen" which I would translate as exposure layer, so > it > is not so clear that this is for the output layers. > From what I read in the articles you linked, I'm shooting way too many > pictures. I'll give it a try with less. > At the moment I shoot jpgs but I could do raw. Is there much benefit? I > see > different white balance in the original images but hugin seems to handle > that > just fine. > > I also tried multiblend. It seems to have a bit more trouble if the > controlpoints are not perfect but it is indeed faster. That doesn't help > with > nona and enfuse which took a lot of time with my big stacks but if I don't > need that, then it will speed up the process a lot. > > I also found some articles about lens calibration. How do I know if I > should > do that? > > If anyone knows articles/tutorials about 360° and/or indoor panos please > share. I find it really hard to find something that covers more than the > basics > and is not outdated (or at least old and thus unclear to me if still > valid). > > Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2021, 21:53:41 CET schrieb 'dkloi' via hugin and > other free panoramic software: > > From the Hugin manual at https://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Stitcher_tab > > > > "If *Exposure fused from any arrangement* is enabled then hugin will seam > > blend images with similar exposure with enblend > > <https://wiki.panotools.org/Enblend> and than it will exposure fuse > > < > https://wiki.panotools.org/index.php?title=Exposure_fusion&action=edit&redl > > ink=1> them using enfuse <https://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse>. This > variant > > is often much more successful than *Exposure fused from stacks* in two > > situations: > > > > - Where entire panoramas have been shot at each EV level consecutively > > rather than each shot bracketed <https://wiki.panotools.org/Bracketing>, > > in this case it isn't guaranteed that shots will line up into the > > approximate stacks expected by the *Exposure fused from stacks* option. > > > > > > - When the panorama has been shot entirely on automatic exposure, in > > this situation it is useful to seam blend adjacent photos with small EV > > differences, but then exposure fuse larger EV differences - As > > effectively happens with this option. > > > > Note that Hugin uses a default threshold of 0.5 EV exposure difference to > > determine which photos can be fused into each layer. This threshold can > be > > modified on the Photos tab <https://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Photos_tab> > in > > the Expert mode (selecting group by Output layers)." > > > > What exposure bracket settings are you using? If it's 0.5EV steps, then > > maybe Hugin is combining 2 exposure planes? > > > > Are you able to share your project and a set of images for diagnosis? > > Downsized, compressed would be fine for testing exposure fusion. > > > > There are other ways of handling high contrast panos. I have some > articles > > that may be useful > > at http://www.dkloi.co.uk/?p=1454 http://www.dkloi.co.uk/?p=1501 > > and http://www.dkloi.co.uk/?p=1518 > > > > On Saturday, 18 December 2021 at 08:15:03 UTC chaosjug wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm looking for the best way to do make 360° indoor panoramas. I'm > using a > > > panorama head and the images align well. No issues there. > > > What I'm wondering is this: > > > I'm shooting stack with different exposure. Is that the right thing? I > > > need > > > different exposure when shooting against a window versus a dark part of > > > the > > > room. > > > How should I build the final image from that? I tried the "fused" and > > > "blended_fused" but it is not totally clear to me what is actually the > > > difference. Is it the order if stacking or building the panorama is > done > > > first? > > > Or is there anything else to it? Which is better? > > > > > > When using "blended_fused" I get three intermediate panoramas with > > > different > > > exposure although there are 7 images in each stack. It is unclear to me > > > why > > > that happens. I get the following warnings: > > > enblend: warning: some images are redundant and will not be blended > > > enblend: note: usually this means that at least one of the images > > > enblend: note: does not belong to the set > > > > > > As I don't have a wide angle lens, I need a lot of images and thus it > > > takes a > > > lot of time to merge. Are there any tricks to speed things up? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Stephan > > > > > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/783111d7-0cc6-4944-9e4f-63cbec15f10an%40googlegroups.com.
