I'm getting insane motion blur on bracketed tripod shots? 5d Mark III.

Here's the original's from the second picture.

So I just looked at these one by one in Camera Raw and they jump around like crazy, not sure where those big jumps are coming from.

Hey everyone,

M H S made the comment asking if I had applied lens correction before blending. I did in Camera Raw, I selected all images and used Auto Vertical to fix the distortion in the images. I was under the assumption they would all adjust equally since they are all the exact same composition but apparently that is not the case.

The auto vertical made each image go in a different direction and I had been using auto on all my images prior to blending. It looks like I'm going to have to adjust distortion after I blend in photomatix.

Thank you all for commenting.

I also just found that there is a sync results button under the auto distortion in Camera Raw, I didn't know that was there. I just recently switched from lightroom to Camera raw. So still learning!

I have been reading through the thread, having the same gear, I found your experience a bit peculiar and was going to point to a possible correction in PP. A couple of weeks ago I was told not to make any lens correction before stitching photos together, because I could have difficulties in aligning them. This seems to be the same in HDR.

contrastaddict said:

Hey everyone,

M H S made the comment asking if I had applied lens correction before blending. I did in Camera Raw, I selected all images and used Auto Vertical to fix the distortion in the images. I was under the assumption they would all adjust equally since they are all the exact same composition but apparently that is not the case.

The auto vertical made each image go in a different direction and I had been using auto on all my images prior to blending. It looks like I'm going to have to adjust distortion after I blend in photomatix.

Thank you all for commenting.

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Glad it worked.

I had a similar problem once.

Just to be fair, I was alerted to this issue by Serge Ramelli (not directly, but by watching one of his tutorials). FYI - if you haven't checked them out, I think they are good, and entertaining. I think it is photoserge.com (or search his name on youtube).


Also, just in case there is any doubt - I do not know Mr. Ramelli, nor do I receive any kickbacks by sending people to his site. I just find them fun/nice tutorials.

contrastaddict said:

Hey everyone,

M H S made the comment asking if I had applied lens correction before blending. I did in Camera Raw, I selected all images and used Auto Vertical to fix the distortion in the images. I was under the assumption they would all adjust equally since they are all the exact same composition but apparently that is not the case.

The auto vertical made each image go in a different direction and I had been using auto on all my images prior to blending. It looks like I'm going to have to adjust distortion after I blend in photomatix.

Thank you all for commenting.

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I made these from you original pictures (photoshop CS5, almost no adjustments):

contrastaddict said:

contrastaddict wrote:
I was under the assumption they would all adjust equally since they are all the exact same composition but apparently that is not the case.

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That does seem like a reasonable assumption, but as they say ... ASS.U.ME :-(

Thanks for the follow-up to resolve and report the fix / work-around.

It really could help someone else with a similar, baffling problem. I always appreciate when someone asks about something, and then confirms that a suggested fix did or didn't work.

Or disappointed when the OP neglects to confirm (or deny) that a suggestion was a partial or full fix. (Not that I don't have room for improvement in that ... my bad)

I think DPR does have a relatively new provision for marking a reply to be the answer, but I don't observe that being used too much.

Or indicating "Like" for a helpful reply that wasn't necessarily the full answer, but was a useful hint to make progress towards the actual answer. Or not the best answer, but still valuable. (again ... I should be intentional about doing that more often)

how gave IMO the solution.

Optical said:

how gave IMO the solution.

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Ok ... done ... ;-)

As I said too often to my kid, "Do as I say, not as I do."

Optical said:

Optical said:

(again ... I should be intentional about doing that (like) more often)

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I don't think it's your hardware. Maybe a combination of software and hardware. If the software tried to align something that's moving (the dog or tree limbs) it might have misaligned the rest of the image in the process.

If you a few of the unmerged images we might be able to figure out what's going on. I could try a more manual program, and trying aligning the points I choose to see what happens. The images don't have to be full size, just large enough to see the misalignment.

Have you ever successful merged any images before? That is, could it be a simple software check box you're missing?

I've made HDR images hand held, so something is wrong, and it's not the hardware . . .

Make sure your aperture is constant for all shots.
I don't see motion blur .. I think I see 3 images with different depth of field caused by a very different aperture for each.

When taking HDR you must ideally leave the aperture and ISO constant and only vary the shutter speed

On Canon, this means being in Av or M.

Hope this helps

Look on the bright side. You've stumbled upon a cool new PP technique that you can now use creatively.

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