exposure bracketing and stacking AP

[ms.fuentecilla]

For the time being at least, whilst I try to sort out alternatives, I am using AP for some procedures. One of these is stacking exposure bracketted frames. AP doesn't seem sensitive to this in the resulting stack. Does anyone have experience of this please?

[David in Яuislip]

All these stacking techniques have ups and downs, I find Photo useful but when it doesn't do what I want I go elsewhere

some examples:
I used a full frame fisheye pointing in 4 directions to make a 360 for a webpage. At each position I took a sequence of bracketed photo's -2 stops, normal, +2 stops handheld. I tried using Photo pano then hdr also hdr then pano, the results were unusable. I then used Hugin and it did the hdr pano in one pop.

I have a test pano sequence of 29 images each 5568x3712. Photo takes 2m 17s to produce a 16013x14989 result and it's excellent. Hugin finds loads of control points but rotates a couple of the images so it's unuseable.

Another pano taken with a 16mm lens with insufficient overlap, Hugin failed, Photo made a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Focus stacking generally works well, if it fails I use Combine ZP

The point of the preamble is to emphasise that there is no one software that will produce what you expect each time

The images below are from one position of the 360 mentioned above. Top one was done from the command line
enblend -o enblended.tif P9270609.png P9270610.png P9270611.png
enblend comes with Hugin
Lower one was Photo and not what I wanted
Happy experimenting

Bonus point if you know where it was taken

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, ms.fuentecilla said:

... I am using AP for some procedures. One of these is stacking exposure bracketted frames ...

What are you trying to achieve with this stacking of bracketed frames? Are you wanting an alternate method to High Dynamic Range photography?