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Gary_Rowe
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April 27, 2011
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P: Better auto stacking for bracketing, HDR, Focus Stacking and Panoramas

  • April 27, 2011
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I currently shoot a lot of Bracketed shots for exposure blending, and with each shot having a different shutter speed the auto-stacking can fail to accurately stack the grouped shots - especially when the shutter speed gets up into 10+ seconds!I would love an option for Auto Stacking to work on the time delay between the shutter closing and the shutter opening again, so it is a true measure of the gap between shots. In this way I can auto-stack on all bracketed shots even when the shutter speed is seconds long. Calculate the time between shots by adding the shutter speed to the capture time of the first shot, and then compare this to the capture time of the next shot, and if I am using Continuous shooting, this gap will be only a fraction of a second, regardless of the shutter speed.Gary

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    Jerry Syder
    Jerry Syder
    Inspiring
    June 19, 2018
    Cheers for that, John 🙂
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Genius
    June 19, 2018
    The status has been changed back to "no status", but Rikk's official reply is still marked as "official", hiding the rest of the thread. 

    The feature request for what actually got implemented (also very useful) is here: 
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-hdr-merge-should-automatically-stac...
    Jerry Syder
    Jerry Syder
    Inspiring
    June 19, 2018
    That's correct. Can we request for this feature request status to be changed from "implemented" to whatever it was before?
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    Vit Kovalcik
    Known Participant
    June 19, 2018
    Thanks, while this feature might be useful, it is very different from the one requested in this thread.

    The implemented one is "just" automatic stacking after user has manually chosen the correct three photos.

    The requested one is intelligent auto-stacking that is able to process hundreds of photos and create stacks that should be then processed by the HDR merger.
    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 19, 2018
    The ability to auto-stack HDR and Panos during the merge process was implemented in Lightroom Classic version 7.4.
    More information can be found here: https://theblog.adobe.com/june-lightroom-cc-releases-preset-profile-synchronization/
    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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    Vit Kovalcik
    Known Participant
    May 13, 2018


    Imagine you are a landscape photograper, using a longish shutter speed (1, 3, 10 seconds etc.)

    I use exposure bracketting, so the images are shot almost immediately one after another, but the Auto Stacking has serious issues with it. It thinks that seconds shot was captured 10.2 seconds after the first, but in reality the first shot took 10 seconds to take and then there was just a 0.2 second delay.

    It would be great if Auto Stacking compared end of previous photo and start of the next one (instead of comparing just the starts of the photos). It would have much better idea of what was actually going on.

    Thanks!
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      aswicks46
      Participant
      April 24, 2018


      When creating stacks have ability to select large set of photos and then Make Stacks Of Size X.  When doing bracketed photos for panos the time difference between last of three bracketed photos and first of next set may be only a second or two.  Can't separate by time. But could separate into stacks of three (or whatever).
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      merkk
      Inspiring
      August 17, 2017
      I would like this as well - would be a big help if i could just tell it to stack every X number of photos
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      bryn_f
      Known Participant
      May 22, 2017


      Since the automatic stacking doesn't work well for me, I'd really like to be able to select a range of images and create stacks in a consistent group. i.e. group bracketed shots in to stacks of 3. Or maybe I was shooting high contrast situation and I know I want to group that entire set in to stacks of 7.

      Select stack of images.
      Choose Photo | Stacking | Group in to stacks of ...
      dialog pops up, I enter 3, hit ok.

      every 4th photo is the top of a new stack.
        Sean H [Seattle branch]
        Sean H [Seattle branch]
        Known Participant
        May 22, 2017


        LR needs to get smart. With a single command, LR could look at photo times and stack HDR and panos. It could then do feature recognition to determine if a shot has overlap [HDR] or if it's panning [Panoramic]. Done. Let me drink my coffee, come back and deliver my photography. 
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