Larry -
For HDR you might want to look into EasyHDR. It's relatively
inexpensive (currently on sale for $33 for the "Home" version), is a
perpetual license with upgrades at no extra charge, and includes a LR
plug-in. There are both Windows and MAC versions. There is no
difference in functionality between the Home and Commercial versions.
The author is merely asking you to pay more if you are using it for
business purposes. A demo version is available with some typical
watermark and file-save limitations. Documentation includes a
discussion on its use in astrophotography.
https://www.easyhdr.com/
-p
On 8/18/2020 5:22 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Aug 18, 2020, at 2:59 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote:
Am 17.08.20 um 23:34 schrieb Larry Colen:
I’d love to move on from LR6...
What's wrong with it, apart from the broken maps feature?
The panorama stitching mostly works, but has a lot of problems.
The HDR mostly works, but has a bunch of problems.
There are a whole list of those issues. Things that I’d like to work better.
There is a good chance that they have fixed them in later versions of
lightroom. To be honest, it seems that my biggest objection to upgrading is the
ransomware billing of CC classic.
The restriction of only two licenses is a pain. It doesn’t work on Linux, and
I’m getting fed up enough with Apple that if I could find a good lightroom
replacement that ran on Linux, I’d switch back in a short moment.
That was the short answer, coincidentally I posted a longer answer on facebook
this evening:
Some things that I wish I could automate when processing photos....
When I go out on a photo shoot, I seem to spend most of my time doing things
that could be automated.
1) I often bracket my photos as a matter of course. Camera meters are stupid and will
often correctly expose on the wrong thing causing the highlights to be blown out. While I
like that lightroom takes raw files and makes a "raw file" hdr, I have to
select each set, then wait for the preview and accept it.
I wish that I could just point to a directory, have it find all of the
sequential photos with varying exposure and create the HDRs out of the ones
that work.
2) Group photos by proximity rather than just time. Lightroom does what it
calls stacking, and it'll let you choose time windows to collect photos into
stacks, but how about it also looks at the location info for a first level of
sorting? It also has compass info on a lot of cameras so it could go based on
which direction you look as well.
3) Panoramas. It would be nice to be able to point to a bunch of photos, say
group them into things that would be logical for panoramas based on time,
location, accelerometer and compass data, and create the panoramas for the ones
that look like they'd fit together.
It could also use this info to help it stitch the frames together.
4) Edge detection, eye detection, sharpness etc. It would be pretty
straightforward to analyze photos for sharpness and note which ones don't have
anything in focus. Similarly facial and eye detection is pretty much a solved
problem, so it could sort things out based on if an eye is in focus.
5) cropping on birds in the sky
It should be pretty straightforward to tell it to find a bird in the sky and
crop fairly close.
6) Never mind facial recognition, I'd like OCR. When photographing things like
racecars, it would be nice if it could just recognize the numbers and sort the
photos based on car number.
In a similar vein, it could be handy to have text automatically read and added
as keywords.
7) Normalize overall exposure. The exif data has shutter speed, ISO, aperture
etc. If you adjust the exposure on one frame, it should be able to make all
frames the same nominal exposure, even if the ISO or shutter speed were changed.
8) Night time panoramas synchronizing the sky and foreground differently. It should be pretty
straightforward, if you know something is a night time photograph, to "mask out" which
are stars and which aren't. When you're stitching night tme panoramas, it would be nice to be able
to stitch the stars and the "Not stars" separately.
edit:
9) Lens profiles. Lightroom metadata will correctly tell me brand and model of
the lens, but the lens profile feature has no clue. I have to select brand, and
it doesn't even select out of the the lenses that have a compatible focal
length. WTF? If I say it's a rokinon, and it is a 24mm lens, why are you
guessing that it's the 50/1.4?
10) when merging photos (hdr or panorama) I'd like to be able to select
particular regions to either make sure are kept in, or kept out, of the final
product. It could be a meteor I want to keep in, or something random like a
plane I want to keep out.
Ralf
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