I just wanted to share some success (well, I think so) that I've had with stitching panoramic combined with HDR.
The image used a total of 24 exposures; 6 frames with 4 exposures each. Here were my steps:
1) I picked an exposure level that would be suitable for stitching. There were blown out areas in the exposure I picked, but as long as I could line up the control points, it didn't matter.
2) Using Hugin (hugin.sourceforge.net), I stitched the series of pictures in step #1.
3) Then I took the output .pto hugin file (plain text file) and modified the file names to the other exposure levels. (4 separate .pto files)
4) Stitched all the different exposures. This generated a stitched file for all 4 exposures.
5) Created the HDR image using the trial version of Photomatix.
6) Adjusted the final image in CS2. This included converting the HDR file twice for different exposure levels, and using layer masks to combine. This was the only way I found to avoid the "HDR look".
Looks good. The approach to keep the stitching output setting of one exposure level and apply it to the others sounds cool. I've recently come to use Autopano Pro which apparently supports HDR panos, but I haven't had a chance to see it at work.
Since this thread is about sharing, I guess I'll share my success with a panorama of the Grand Canyon (yes, that's me in the middle):
I also used the Hugin program. Due to some glitches with the program, I had to adjust the exposures and blending by hand in GIMP, but it turned out quite nicely.
While we are showing off panoramas, this was my very first attempt about 6 months ago. Havent done any since. It is only made up of 3 shots. They were taken without a tripod and on Auto landscape setting.
P.S. It looks way better in print and on my wall. It is printed at about 20+ inches(cant remember exactly) inches long, almost 50 cms.
Since this thread is about sharing, I guess I'll share my success with a panorama of the Grand Canyon (yes, that's me in the middle):
I also used the Hugin program. Due to some glitches with the program, I had to adjust the exposures and blending by hand in GIMP, but it turned out quite nicely.
That's a very nice panorama, good exposure across the entire image. I would however crop the black out. I'm assuming you used the self-timer for the centre shot then, ran out onto the rock.
Here's one of mine that I did a while back. I had the camera in portrait orientation to get as much resolution as possible.
