Rhythm & Code Blog

The first step to automating HDR processing is to get your images broken up into sets that you can work with. After going out to shoot pictures I can easily end up with 100 5 shot sets of images. That’s 100 HDR images to produce from 500 source images. File management can get to be a challenge and trying to do it all by hand is very time consuming and error prone. This my process for getting images broken up into sets in an automated way. All of the directories mentioned below are in my main Photos directory.

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The purpose of this article is mainly to server as an outline to myself for the series or posts I need to write to document my current method for automating HDR post-processing. I’m also just trying to get the feel for writing posts and what not. As I write the interesting bits I’ll update this post to link to them. Each documented step will contain links to any software needed. Off the top of my head I know that you’ll need pfstools , pfsCalibration, PFStmo, openexr, qpfstmo, qtpfsgui, and optionally cinepaint.

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