No problem, Christian -- I'll take any publicity I can get! And yes, Photosphere *used* to use different hero exposures for different regions, but I eventually abandoned the approach for something more similar to what I implemented in Photoshop. It doesn't always work better, but 90% of the time it does.
Cheers, -Greg > From: Christian Bloch <[email protected]> > Date: February 28, 2012 8:51:17 AM PST > > Hi Greg, > > On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Gregory J. Ward wrote: > >> I don't fully agree with the comment on Christian Bloch's site. I worked on >> the Photoshop CS5 ghost removal as well, and the algorithm is very similar, >> with the added ability to control which exposure serves as reference in CS5. >> It may have worked better on this one example, but I sometimes find myself >> using Photoshop when Photosphere doesn't do what I want it to. > > Sorry to disappoint you, Greg. The brevity of the blog format often forces me > to simplify facts in a black-and-white manner, and leave out the more subtle > nuances. In this case I was purposely trying to raise awareness for > Photosphere, because it is rather underrated among my photographer audience. > From observation it seems that Photoshop tends take the chosen hero exposure > very literal, eventually dismissing useful information from the side > exposures. Whereas Photosphere seems to be more adaptive in the choice of > hero exposures and may pick different ones for different image areas. > > Christian Bloch _______________________________________________ HDRI mailing list [email protected] http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/hdri
