Erik Winquist – The Definitive Weta Digital Guide to IBL hdri capture

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Notes:

  • Camera type: full frame with exposure bracketing and an 8mm circular fish eye lens.
  • Bracketing: 7 exposures at 2 stops increments.
  • Tripod: supporting 120 degrees locked offsets
  • Camera angle: should point up 7.5 degrees for better sky or upper dome coverage.
  • Camera focus: set and tape locked to manual
  • Start shooting looking towards the sun direction with and without the ND3 filter; The other angles will not require the ND3 filter.
  • Documenting shooting with a slate (measure distance to slate, day, location, camera info, camera temperature, camera position)

 

NOTE: The goal is to clean the initial individual brackets before or at merging time as much as possible.
This means:

  • keeping original shooting metadata
  • de-fringing
  • removing aberration (through camera lens data or automatically)
  • at 32 bit
  • in ACEScg (or ACES) wherever possible

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