My Imaging Tools and Workflow

mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:15:50 +0000

As my photos get backed up and burnt on to a DVD, I thought I might just do a quick cataloguing of the software I’ve found useful for developing my photographs and what each does. I’d also outline my workflow as I present each software in the order in which it appears in the workflow. Just to set the context, I use Microsoft Windows 7 for my imaging tasks, and my camera is a Nikon D90, so I do use a lot of Nikon software.

Creating Hand-held HDRs

mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:35:24 +0000

On my recent vacation, I took a bunch of bracketed exposures to turn into HDRs. Before this trip I only used a tripod for bracketing. This time around, however, I had to deal with hand-held bracketed shots. To make things a bit worse, these shots included foliage, which isn’t always stationary between shots. Picturenaut utterly failed to align these images. I tried Luminance HDR (qtpfsgui) for Windows 7 (64-bit), and it simply kept crashing. Then I tried Hugin, which too failed to do much. Besides, it was extremely confusing since it is a tool for stitching panoramas, with HDR and alignment being a part of the whole.

Hdr on Tahir Hashmi

My Imaging Tools and Workflow

Creating Hand-held HDRs