Sunset over the New River Gorge

Kyle Jones

Kyle Jones

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Truly wonderful image. Congrats on the featured post. I also appreciate your discussion with Ken. From what I have understood, the behavior of the exposure, highlight, and shadow sliders in ACR is "smart" - it changes based on what is in the image. Good lesson here to stay away from them until after stitching. I'd have never thought it would be so pronounced.
 
Dave Johnston

Dave Johnston

Well-Known Member
Thank you, @Kyle Jones . I never did solve the problem of inconsistent effects when applying the same adjustments to different images in the same panorama. I noticed that the Exposure slider does not seem to have this problem - it lightens or darkens every part of each image to the same degree. But definitely Shadows and Highlights have a different effect on each image. As you say, it would be possible to stitch the images in Lightroom before making any adjustments. But I have no desire to be locked into the rudimentary panorama capabilities of Lightroom, before I can even begin making my adjustments. So I don't think that's a good tradeoff.

I have found that the disparity in shadows and highlights is not as great if the amount of adjustment is modest. So I can continue bracketing exposures and make more modest adjustments to the medium, light and dark series of exposures, and blend them with HDR or exposure fusion. That's what I'll continue doing for the time being.

Dave
 
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