New Gary IN HDR panoramic!

This one has turned out to be one of my favorites(could be because all the time I spent on it!). This was tougher than most because of the higher contrast of the scene. It was shot in the basement of the old Gary post office building. It was almost totally dark except for where the light was coming in. Normally for my HDRs I'll shoot a bracket of -2, 0, +2 but because of the wider range of the lit areas to the dark areas I used the in camera meter to see what the differences were. They were about 4 stops. Since my camera settings will only spread 3 stops I had to shoot extra images. I did a bracket at -4, -2, 0 then another bracket at 0, +2, +4, then I deleted a 0 and the -2 and +2 so I had a final bracket at -4, 0, +4. I had to do this for all 5 shots in the pan. I also had to shoot at ISO 4000 to get the bracket because the shutter speed of my camera tops out at 30 secs. BTW it did take a 2nd trip to Gary to shoot this right. After processing the images in Adobe Camera Raw I save them as tiffs. I then take them into Photomatix and create an HDR of each of the 5 shots, then it's over to Photoshop(or Autopano Pro) to merge or stitch them into a single panoramic image. For this image I really needed to work on the dark and light areas separately so I created layers and masks for each. I brightened up the light areas and added more detail to them and I desaturated the shadow areas. I also lighten up the chair and a few items on the floor and the icicles in the upper left corner. Yes this was a lot of work but I'm really enjoying it and I love my final result!