How many pictures did you use to achieve such a result ?
As you are certainly now "expert" with PTGui, do you have "basic settings" that give good results and good "starting point" ?!
Thierry,
I used 6 images one stop away from each other.
Let's make things very clear, I am not an expert of anything besides Belgian beers. :-)
As far as PTgui goes, I use the Pro version to compensate for my lack of expertise, besides it is pretty straighforward.
One key aspect is to use both lens light fall off and points optimizations. I use optimizations of points in an iterative way until I get an average error around 0.3 (meaning that I delete all the points with large optimization errors). This can only be achieved if the entrance pupil of the lens was correctly positionned atop the rotation axis of the pano head while shooting.
Enfuse style HDR can is - I believe - only availabe in the pro version and enables you to brighten shadows and darken highlights with recovery like sliders. That is the best implementation of Enfuse I have seen anywhere and the reason why I like it. Then you often need to polish up the work in PS with a few masked curves to restore a bit of pops. Finish with a good beer and you are ready to go!
Cheers,
Bernard