Once upon a time, pfstmo tools were only available via the terminal. Worse, they were unable to produce an EXR/HDR image on their own (they were only meant to do the tone mapping, hence the name).
So, once upon a time, this was the only way we had of creating hdr images (Hugin allowed us to export the resulting images as exr/hdr). Once we did that we then still had to run pfstmo multiple times across the various TMO’s until we got near a result we liked (then had to tweak the params to dial it in). Ah, the good ol days… walking uphill to work both ways…
I had part of one written at one time, but I guess it would be nice to have a new one (and a great opportunity to use it to help raise community awareness some more too).
In short, shoot with as shallow a dof as you can muster (going long on focal length helps here). Start grabbing shots all around your subject (try to grab the subject first to minimize shifting between shots). I think the originator of the popularity of the technique (Brenizer) actually said somewhere that he only shoots JPG for these, as the resolution will be ridiculous once stacked, and he doesn’t gain anything by shooting raw.
@paperdigits there are plenty of tutorial for Brenizer.
Simplifing: shallow deep of field, shoot first tour subject, then, going from near to far, shoot around, then stitch everything with hugin
I, too, have recently discovered this capability within Hugin. It is really convenient for those times you forget your tripod! But also, it works great for general HDR workflow too. It is really useful that it produces exr images that can be further edited in Darktable, etc. Hugin is such a great tool!
Thanks! Maybe with the help of @patdavid and @Dario_M (and others?) we can transform it into a real tutorial? It would need a more representative example of bracketed image and some better/more exhaustive text…
Yes! I had been working on one for a panorama, but have not be able to achieve good results lately. I can capture some bracked shots for this.
This was not clear to me, perhaps it is a different because you’re on OS X. When you click the “Create control points” button, does it launch the “Finding control points” action or does it move you to the “Optimizer” tab?
Yes! This would be great! I, too, will be happy to help if I can. Certainly I could donate some bracketed shots at the very least. Just let me know what I can do to help!
Cool, I will do that ASAP. It the first day of class today, and I have to finish preparing my lectures, but I will try to get this done by tomorrow afternoon…
Awesome! I took a few indoor bracketed example shots yesterday, but want to get some outdoor ones too. What is the best way to get you the images? Fork the git repo, add them and issue a pull request? Just hist them somewhere? Do you want raw images? Jpegs? Tiffs?
Just an FYI, I’ve forked the website repo, made my local clone and have merged up to your “hugin-aligning-images-tutorial” branch. I will add the bracketed shots over the weekend and then will send you a pull request when it is ready!
No lens profile, but I have been achieving good results simply setting lens information manually each time with “equirectangular”, choosing focal length of 12mm, and crop factor of 2 (micro four thirds). The lens is the Samyang/Rokinon 12mm f2. I did a half-hearted Google search for an available lens profile file for this lens the other day, but didn’t find one. Have been too busy to set up a proper calibration image to make a profile with hugin calibration tool, but could try to do that in the next few days…
