Hello  
I'm trying to build an HDR Pano with Stitcher Unlimeted 5.6.1. under Mac OS X 10.4.10 on an Intel Mac.
 
I different HDR Images, some with 3 Exposure steps, some with 6 steps.
 
All of my renderings are much to light. Looks totally overexposed.  
The manual says absolutely nothing about the HDR workflow. All i can find are to shortcuts to lower or raise the Exposure (shift+pgup and shift+pgdown)  
In the stitcher window i can see that the exposure level raises. All of my immages are very dark in the stitcher window.  
Now, I'm rendering, and there is nothing different in my rendering than before changing the exposure level.
 
Is there any HDR workflow tutorial/manual out there?
Has anybody an idea why all of my renderings are totally overexposed?
Thank you!
Andy

Andy
When you say they're over-exposed, what file type are you looking at?

hello douglas
i'm looking at a spherical image rendering.
have a look here:
http://www.digitale-heimat.de/~and [...] garden.jpg
 
 
thank you
andy

Andy
You're right its too bright. I'm demo-ing ver 5.5 and don't have the HDR tools but if the stitched images look too dark before rendering, you're probably looking at an HDR image that your monitor can't correctly display.  
 
What I've been doing is using Photomatix Pro to composite the source images first with HDR/Tone Mapping, then stitching them with the RVSUDS and iPIX Interactive Studio and am getting good results.
 
This would a slower, more tedious process depending on how many images your lens makes you use, but there isn't much better than Photomatix for HDR.
 
I can make some workflow suggestions for Photomatix if you tell me which lens you're using (it makes a difference with circular or cropped circular images).

hello  
i'm using an Canon EOS 400D with a 10-22mm lens. -> compared to analog it is 16 mm. That's what stitcher is recocnizing from the EXIF.  
i'm shooting 18 images, 2 rows with 8 shots. the seiling and the floor.  
according to my handbook of the manfrotto sph 303 panorama head, with this lense 6 shots per row should be enough.
but shooting images on large places gives me lot of problems in stitching. so i decided to shot 2 images more per row. now stitching is fine.
   
Usually i take a row of 3 shots with 2 exposure steps.  
i also tried to make an HDR out of  2 rows whith 3 shots per row, with different exposures, to get more
different information in critical shots to the hdr.
 
I tried the demo of photomatix but everything looked very "unnatural". rendering a 8bit jpg out of a HDR in Photoshop it looks more naturally.
 
i don't understand for what reason i can us shift+pgdown or up to raise or lower one exposure step in the stitcher if there is no result to the rendering.  
 
best whishes
andy