Nodal point help with panorama

[Ben Rubinstein]

Hey Bart, no question indoors it isn't necessary. I was referring to outdoor work where if you're careful with the lighting the HDR is needed mainly to hold the skies and therefore moving subjects are less of a problem if you carefully layer afterwards in PS.

I'm trying to do the trick Guillermo Luijck describes elsewhere but version 1.1 of zeronoise is crashing constantly on me so I've sent a error report as requested and we'll see how things go from here.

I did of course buy SNS-HDR for use with virtual tours where noise is of course of very little importance but for a 30X15" print where I often use iso 1600 outdoors, it gains more relevance!

 

[Sebastian Nibisz]

You're kidding right? The ability to freeze movement with a stopped down lens has often had me shooting pano's at iso 1600, software that cannot cope with iso 400 in 2011 is a joke. I didn't apply any more than the defaults of contrast in the 'natural' preset. Given that HDR should reduce noise rather than enhance it, it is strange that the program creates about triple the amount of noise in the shadow areas than was present originally in a brighter bracket of the same scene which the program had to use. If I wanted to have the look of a heavily over pushed file then I wouldn't bother bracketing in the first place. The ceiling in that image is horrifically noisy where no noise exists in the image with the same brightness. There just shouldn't need to be any noise at all in the far right of the histogram but with the iso 100 image on the balcony I still had to apply noise reduction to the blue sky. On a 5D that should be unimagineable.

Hi Ben,

You have used the remove ghosts option? This option minimizes noise in the HDR image.
Noise level should be the same as on the brightest exposures (if have used the remove ghosts option). If not, show me a sample image.

Regards,
Sebastian