HDR stitch

Stitching bracketed exposures into a HDR panorama

How to:

- Focus on the first part (start) of your panoramic image. Auto focus. Take several of the same image but change the f-stop for each image.

- For the next part (second section) of your panorama, overlap whatever was last seen in the previous shot and take several shots BUT DONT FOCUS AGAIN! Keep the focus the same as the last shot.

- Continue this until you're finished.

Photoshop:

- First of all, group together all of the same shots (put them into seperate folders e.g- HDR1, HDR2 etc.).

- (In photoshop) File -> Automate -> 'Merge to HDR' -> Browse -> Choose HDR1

- Alter 'HDR conversion'

- Save as (DO THIS FOR ALL HDR FOLDERS!)

NEXT

- File -> Automate -> Photomerge (leave photoshop to stitch the images together for you)

- Once this is done you can alter the HDR image. You can change the levels, crop it etc.

- Flatten the image and save it ('for web' AND as a psd)

Here is my HDR stitch: