Hello Everybody!
My fists tour in showcase:
http://aroundphoto.ru/client/whiteRabbit/ and
http://aroundphoto.ru/client/whiteRabbitRc1/ - first acid version.


Mortals like everything ;)
Which one do You prefer the most?


upd: http://around.photo/whiterabbit

Thanks for reply.

Very beautiful place. Restaurant is located in the core of the city (Smolenskaya Station) near Arbat Street. There you can see Foreign Office, Ostankino Tower, "Moscow city" business center, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Average check is about 60€ without booze, but there you can taste things you'll never meet anywhere else.
I'm considering to shoot there at night.

I'm USM hi radius(same for all scenes in final# version), and "man from mars method" from Dan Margulis(a) ;)
Rc1 has bigger radius and amount, and differs from scene to scene.
I use adjust, never true hdr, because I don't like it at all.
4 last scenes was taken a week later, same time and whether.
In both versions there is a mask for the case ceiling with hi radius USM, but in the second version dark halos masked also where needed.
Later noticed color differences between scenes, but it bothers only me :)

It's 9steps. My D200 gives me from -4 to +4.
For this case 7 or 5 steps is sufficient, but in case I prefer to shoot 9.
I use Photomatix to merge shots with batch and only then stitch them.

//I'll butch them all with the same settings(colors and USM)
//I like first too, accept black halos in some places(easy replaceable)
//And I forgot to mention my TN "workhorse" acer 2416W

You can use NKRemote or anything to accomplish 9 or even more exposures.
Edges look this way because I've masked them from hi-rad USM filter.
After fusing there was (and is) some problems with case - black halos in some places. It's easy but time consuming to get rid of 'em - sampling right color>brushing>fading brush(~30%) - perfect solution.
// I always feed to Photomatix all 9 exp, just in case

andrew22222, adjust fuses exposures only(no HDR, no Tone mapping), and there is nothing to blend but issues with your aligning and vignetting(get rid of this in ARC).
And if you'll try to stitch Tone mapped pictures - there will be issues, if settings are harsh.
You should think about priority. What's more crucial for final pano? I you do one mistake in the middle of your bracketing set, Photomatix will correct this simply by shifting, but if you first stitch panoramas by exposures and then feed them to Photomatix - there will be huge issues.
Also I set contrast and blacks to 0 in ACR, because there are many details. It's easy to increase contrast in future, using USM hi radius.
+ use aligning "by correcting shifts" and don't play with adjust blending point.
//Dan Margulis has some outstanding classes on Kelbytraining.com - "Introduction to Photoshop LAB Color", "The LAB Frontier" and others.
//Thanks for the link Andrew. I've tried this technique with this tutorial http://www.ptgui.com/examples/vptutorial.html with no result, the other day. I'll try it again. Nadirs are always time consuming
//I'm considering to buy Nikon D7000 but it only can do 3 bracketing shots and I found great solution using your iPhone/iPod/iPad as a remote(but still need laptop attached) for 20 bones http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/ds…ote/how-to.html (also have a look to Dave Cross overview)

When I shoot the other day I didn't try to collapse tripod leg.
I thought there should be no problems with nadir at all with this technique, regardless of the surface. Anyway I'll try this tomorrow. What's your distance for nadir shot from main?
I've tried NKRemote - I've bind release to the middle button of my bluetooth mouse - voilà, my new remote . But mirror lock up don't work for some reason (there is an option)