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Brighton Sky

I've been wanting to try Hugin panorama photo stitcher for a while, so I took advantage of a couple of sunny days we had in Brighton a couple of weeks ago to go and capture some skies to test it out. I also recently started using Affinity Photo for my photo editing so this was also the first time I used it for panorama stitching.
I was also tying a new lens, different to the 8mm I've used in the past, it's a 10mm with a 170° on the horizontal and 114° on the vertical. This allow me to shooting with the camera in horizontal just take 3 sets of pictures with the camera at around 45° pointing upwards if I just want to capture the sky.
Also tried taking 3 set of pics plus an extra one for the zenith with the camera horizontal to the ground. Both of them worked great although with the first method it the sun appears in more than one set, causing more lens flares when close to the edge, with the second one it's easier to handle lens flares and position the sun, but requires to be careful not to shoot the sun during the zenith shot to avoid the same issue.
Additionally to these sets I took one extra set with an ND1000 filter of the sun to get the full dynamic range of the sky and not clip the sun and another one with the sun covered to help clean up lens flared and sun stars.
For the processing of the images I used Affinity Photo to merge the images as I had some issues doing it in Hugin, remove the lens flares using the extra set of images with the sun covered, colour correction and clean up the horizon once the panorama was created. As for the stitching I used Hugin which worked great except for the issue merging the images, some minor misalignment on the horizon (which I removed anyway) and sometimes having to add some extra control points manually.
Then I imported it to Unreal Engine 5.

Result of the sky imported to UE5

I used my Lumix S5 mounted on a panohead, had to use a longer plate to be able to align the nodal point of the lens properly. Lens is a 7artisans 10mm 2.8 II, ND1000 filter mounted on a 3D printer adapter, remote, lux meter and X-Rite ColorChecker Classic

I used my Lumix S5 mounted on a panohead, had to use a longer plate to be able to align the nodal point of the lens properly. Lens is a 7artisans 10mm 2.8 II, ND1000 filter mounted on a 3D printer adapter, remote, lux meter and X-Rite ColorChecker Classic

Final image. Exposure adjusted to preserve detail when exporting the LDR image.

Final image. Exposure adjusted to preserve detail when exporting the LDR image.