360 Photo Shoot Tip Collection

Burned out window repair

1 Nikon 990
1 Dark Room
1 Bright Window

I do have a dark room to shoot a panorama image series which had a very bright window.  First attempt involved turning all the table lights on (7). Set up in the middle of the room. Took and stitched the shots and examined the results.  Bad case of window burn out as expected.

So this next time, my first click stop view was half way between room bright and dark side AE LOCK ON.  Took the images series. Then clicked back to the window click stop.  Took AE LOCK OFF.  Set the EV Setting until I could see the trees and grass outside the window.  In this case it was EV -2.0. Took the dark room shot.

So now I have all the images. 1 pic AE lock off and EV -2.0.  #1, 2, 3 pic with AE Lock ON.

In photo shop I opened the EV-2.0 and pix #1.
Clicked on the move tool and SHIFT dragged the EV-2 image over onto the Normal image. 
PS put the EV-2 image on a new layer over the top of the Normal shot.
In the Layers pallet, change blending mode from Normal to Mulitply.
Make sure that the background color is white and foreground color is black.
I used the magic lasso marquee (3 pix feather) to select only the surrounding window content in the EV-2 layer,
and then once selected, clicked on the SELECT MENU | INVERT so that I now had the outer area selected.. 
then press the backspace key to clear the black to the now white background color
Save this layered image as a .psd file so if we want to come back later and edit it we can.
Then while still in the .psd in photoshop, cleaned up the layers window using the smudge, dodge and burn tools.

Flatten / Save all as bmp. Then I stitched the series in the normal fashion saved as panorama bmp.

Seemed to work.  Here is sample from each step: