Hello and thanks to read the post, i need to do some photos in interiors and i need to use a HDRI software to join 3 diferent exposures, I've been trying Photomatix but i just want to know if there is any other solutions, does photoshop Cs3 works better than any other software for this ? thanks a lot for your interest !!
By the way does anyone have information from any books or photographers thar are pros in interior architecture ?
Last edited by Robert Sants; July 11, 2007 at 08:11.
Hi,
You just want to join some images or create an HDRI from your pictures?
In fact, for both, you can use realviz stitcher, it's as the name indicates a very good tool for "stitching" and since the 5.6 version you can add some pictures with different exposures in your panorama to create your own HDRI...
About Photoshop CS3 you are true, there is a nice auto merge function, you even don't have to place the different images : file/automate/photomerge. you can choose the type of perspective, the result is very surprising!
Both Photomatix and Photoshop CS3 do a good job for HDR.
I would say for the HDR and tone mapping, Photomatix is better, but, if you need to align the source images, CS3 is doing a better job then Photomatix, in most cases at least. You will also find that an certain image might like a program better then the other, so my recommendation is to use both, neither is hard to learn for HDR, so if you run somehting on Photomatix and are not 100% and you can always try it on CS3 and vice versa.
What kind of question do you have about interiors ? My system is Canon and I have 3 lenses that are stunning for interiors, 16-35mm Mark II and the TS-E 24 and 45mm.
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Reolz, have you tried PTGui ?
I was/am a real Realviz advocate and I love it , but the other day I decided to try PTGui and it made small work of images that Realviz simply was not able to stitch, I was very impressed. Though it sill lacks features, like the multi exposure you mention, it is very impressive :-)
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Thanks a lot , many years ago i used VR Worx to stitch but then i found Realviz stitcher since then for me this is my main tool to stitch pictures apart that when im lazy and the pictures are eazy then i use Arcsoft panoramamaker that isn't as bad as it looks, one year ago i started to try to shot the same image in 3 diferent exposures and i found Photomatix but the pictures for me does not look natural probably its me that i don't know how to make them look natural but anyway, what im looking for is a method to take the best pictures on interiors without flash, i use a Sony DSC-R1 i know that is not the best camera in the world but i was looking for a compact camera so for me this was the best choise.
So the question is : what is for you the best convination of software once you have the pictures in different exposures each and you need to make the HDR images and then stitch them ?
So, to do an HDR I have to go with Photomatix.
Then to stitch either Realviz or PTGui.
BUT... do the stitching first, of each exposure level and THEN do the HDR using the stiched result, otherwise it is near imposssible to get good results (sorry if you knew that) Also, the more exposures you have the better your HDR will look, I have done images with 15 exposures, .25 apart, from -2ev to +2ev
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Are you going to stitch interior shots taken with the Sony ? I would not really consider stitching interior images, parallax errors are a nightmare in closed quarters.
I program I would love to try, VR Worx and Tourweaver, I have never ever been able ot find them online, at least, a real working version :-(
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So about the HDR images with the sony R1, Im not a pro photographer i'm half interior architect and half graphic designer among other things and some times i need to do cool pictures of my projects and as i said i'm not a pro ph, i do love make interior panoramas and i'm trying to learn as mutch i can to make them better so if you have any sugestions i apreciate that, I'm thinking about buy a panorama tripod and a propper flash for the camera . About your experience what is the minimum number of pictures that i have to take to have a dicent result and the values ?
Thanks for your interest !
Last edited by Agon; July 12, 2007 at 00:43.
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Reolz, have you tried PTGui ?
I was/am a real Realviz advocate and I love it , but the other day I decided to try PTGui and it made small work of images that Realviz simply was not able to stitch, I was very impressed. Though it sill lacks features, like the multi exposure you mention, it is very impressive :-)
No I didn't know PTGui, thanks for the advice I'm gona look at it closer because sometimes stitcher is a bit capricious!
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