Yesterday afternoon I made run to the hardware store and thought the
sunset clouds behind the old sawdust burning oven looked interesting.
I tried shooting a few panoramas, bracketing by +/- 2 stops.
Here are three different panos, one from the fastest shutter speed
(1/100), one from the middle (1/25) and one from an HDR from the fastest
and slowest (1/100+ 1/16), all processed in lightroom 6.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157662305853371
My conclusions are:
1) the K-3 has enough dynamic range that for a lot of shots, if you're
willing to take the time HDR isn't completely necessary to get a decent
shot, particularly at ISO 100.
2) The lightroom auto-toning of HDR works a *LOT* better than their
normal auto-toning and get the exposure a lot closer to what I want.
3) While the final outcome in lightroom between HDR and not may not be
dramatic, it's a lot quicker to get the good results using their HDR.
4) I really ought to use a tripod at 1/6 second.
5) With the incredible dynamic range of the K-3 sensor, I really want
more than a maximum of two stops of bracketing per frame. Seriously,
when you compare the raw files two stops out of 12 or 14 are barely
noticeable. I want +/-4 stops.
Mind you, +/- 2 stops might make a difference if you're the sort of
tosser that shoots in jpeg.
6) With the dynamic range of the K-3, I really wish that Lightroom had a
larger range of adjustment on all of their sliders, particularly in HDR
mode.
7) I really wish that Lightroom let me select regions from various
frames that I explicitly want to include in or exclude from either HDR
or panorama frames.
8) I wish I could just point Lightroom to a folder/directory and just
tell it to make HDR versions of the lightest and darkest exposures of
all of the bracketed frames, rather than having to manually do each one.
--
Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est)
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