"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> >
> > What I *really* need to do-- for this project and others-- is to buy a shiny
> > sphere, for making a 'light probe' (a non-HDRI version, as my little Canon video
> > camera doesn't shoot HDRI/'raw' images, unfortunately.)
>
> Of course, there's the alternate trick of making, say, five bracketed exposures
> of the mirrored sphere with my 'regular' camera, and then combining those in
> specialized software to make an HDRI image. But I haven't gotten into the HDRI
> world yet, sad to say. "So little time, so MUCH to learn." ;-)

This is pretty cool!

I have a 5 inch chrome sphere that I use for that very purpose (plus it looks
cool on my desk when not in use). Mount your camera on a tripod and take a set
of bracketed shots, then rotate the tripod ~90 degrees around the sphere and
take another set of bracketed shots. After you've combined the two bracketed
imagesets into 2 HDRs you can merge these offset images to eliminate the
camera/tripod completely from the final shot. Of course, Ive's IC is very useful
here:

http://www.lilysoft.org/IC/ic_index.htm

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