HDR scenery black point issue

[kofa (István Kovács)]

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Hugin pano/HDR + darktable in scene-referred

How to use Hugin to perform image alignment and stacking for HDR and/or stiched panorama and still preserve (sort-of) signal linearity for later edits ? 1. How to shoot ? When shooting the pictures, ensure you lock AE (auto-exposure) and AF (auto-focus) so the whole series of images to stack have the same exposure reference and same focal distance. If you are not bracketing for exposure (meaning if you don’t intend to use HDR blending), expose to protect highlights in the brightest region of …