Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Hening Bettermann on September 18, 2011, 04:24:58 pm
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Hi
is there any exposure stacking program that will at the same time handle moving foliage and the like? Mac preferred.
I just tried the recent update to PhotoAcute and find artifacts even on a tree trunk which had certainly not moved…
Hening
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Hi
is there any exposure stacking program that will at the same time handle moving foliage and the like? Mac preferred.
I just tried the recent update to PhotoAcute and find artifacts even on a tree trunk which had certainly not moved…
Hening
Not just an issue with exposure stacking. It will happen whenever you are merging multiple exposures into one image. I wonder if you can do exposure stacking with Photomatix? It has an anti-ghosting feature, although, in my opinion, it does not work well enough for high-quality architectural (with foliage) and landscape subjects.
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Hi David,
thank you for the hint, I need to try Photomatix then.
Hening.
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I've found Autopano Pro to have excellent capabilities in that regard. In CS5 there's also an option to pick one of the stacked images to use as a reference for moving objects between frames.
Mike.
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Thank you Mike, I'll have to look into this.
-David, in a short test of 1 image with auto-de-ghosting, the stack in Photomatix had the same ghost branch as in ImageFuser. So like you, I found it not quite satisfactory.
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Hening: This will give you some idea of what Autopano Pro can do: http://www.wolfnowl.com/2010/12/photographing-moving-water/
Mike.
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Thank you Mike,
that is indeed impressive. I had earlier checked APP, but was led to believe that it is designed to make panos, as the name suggests, but not merges of frames with near-identical contents. Upon your recommendation, I'll have a second look at it.
My favorite of your images is #3 - "even" if that is AVOIDING the virtues of APP.
Good light! - Hening.