Normally I do HDR when exposure ranges are outside of limits. However, I will be doing a virtual tour of the interior of an old mansion with dark wood and some windows. The interior lighting is poor and I do want to show the beautiful woodwork.
I am considering using a portable flat-panel led that can be hand held or mounted on the hot-shoe.
I use a Canon 5D MarkII with a sigma 8mm fisheye lens (3 images for 360)
There are over 30 rooms and I don't want to hassle with electric cords, so, it need to be battery operated. Has anyone used a portable light source that works for 360's.
Thanks,
Dennis

Hi Dennis!

You don´t need a lightsource - use bracketing. I used it on a familiar occasion: extremely bright sunny light outside and very dark rooms inside:
http://www.360impressions.de/Drachentour/

5D2, 3-step bracketing with 2EV. Better than EVERY additional lighting (i´m a commercial (advertising) photographer owning lots of light which i could take with me . . about 10000Ws studio-flash).
Bracketing in THE way to go with panorama-shooting. A collegue once did a pano in the UN - he used an umbrella with a lamp fixed to the camera and moving with it. Takes some time to setup and the light is . . well: not really good.

See my site: www.360impressions.de - not a single pano/tour was shot using additional light.

best, Klaus

Thanks Klaus,

Nice work. What F-stop & ISO do you usually use for bracketed indoor panos?

ISO100, f8

best, Klaus

A real masterpice Klaus. Can you believe that I mainly checked to see the quality of the nadirs? ;-)

Thank you, Hans! None of the Nadirs was photographed.

best, Klaus

I noticed it was photoshopped ;-)

Because i mentioned it several times . . .

best, Klaus

True, but if it was photographed the way I do it should not look like it does ;-)

Do see the ;-)'s !!!

All yoking aside, it is a great virtual tour.

But having stitched so many nadirs I can not look down in the speisezimmer and see that a tile was copied. But I know it is because I do so many nadirs that I see this. Others will problably not.

I guess there are MUCH more important views in this - and the other - rooms than some small fragments of the floor . . aren´t there?

best, Klaus

absolutely it is my professional mental disorder to look at nadirs with so much interest ;-)

"Déformation professionnelle" . . .

best, Klaus