How to Blend an HDR Panorama
Today I'm going to show you how to create an HDR panorama and I'm going to be using PTGui (www.ptgui.com) and Photoshop to combine and blend exposures afterwards after I combine all the HDR images. You can also do this by creating in Photoshop or any other program that combines HDR images and then stitching together your HDR to create a panorama but PTGui is the easiest way because it combines everything all at once and lets you adjust everything. Also, afterwards I'm going to show you what it would have looked like as a regular panorama so you can see the differences in dynamic range. I'm not going to go too far with the HDR. I'm not a huge fan of HDR, like the stereotypical look with the halos, a lot of people say "overbaked" look. I'm just using it to make it look a little bit more surreal not so much cartoony but more realistic and then just a touch above that with the detail, the colors, the vibrance and the dynamic range just extended a little bit beyond what you would have shot as a normal panorama.
I'm going to start off with a very simple 12 images. These are bracketed 3 ways so we have the regular "0", -3 and plus 3 EV bracketed so there are 4 sets of 3.
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