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Playing around with panoramas today.

This one is made up from 4 full size images shot with the camera tilted in portrait.

All shot on manual 1/128s @ f/5.0 on tripod. ISO 200.

very nice Mark. I really like the exposure of the sky - it's fantastic ! I feel like I'm standing there (almost )

I would really have liked for a 5th shot showing the entire jetty on the right...but otherwise, WELL DONE !

Out of curiosity, what PP did you do to the image ??

I find the sky to have a loss of detail and saturation.......you could try this with the flaten image......it was posted before......

thankyou to Russell Brown for the below....



Evaluate your channels
choose the channel with the most detail
Choose Select>all - Then choose Edit>copy.
go to layers select the background layer
Choose edit>paste
you should have a new layer 1 that is black and white

Now apply a blending mode to Layer 1
Choose layer 1
Select the move tool and then hold down the shift key and hit the minus key, and you will scroll through the different blending modes

Thanks Guys.

Only used USM 100/.5/0.

I'm off now to try BPs suggestion. Love this forum with all the ideas and techniques I keep learning.

Be back soon with the result.

In teh meantime here is a single shot from teh same spot that I bumped up the red and yellow saturation levels.

Mark
I have been watching this forum for a while and am one of those that sits in the wings and enjoys the work people put up. I have really been enjoying your Pics of the pumicestone passage. I know live in Tassie but grew up in Brisbane and had family Holidays up that way. great shots and keep um coming. You really do manage to capture the feeling of the place.You may have even inspired me to put up come local ones of the river Derwent.

Many thanks
o1

Hi 01,

don't hold back, show us the Derwent !

Cheers,
CD

O1 wrote:Mark
I have been watching this forum for a while and am one of those that sits in the wings and enjoys the work people put up. I have really been enjoying your Pics of the pumicestone passage. I know live in Tassie but grew up in Brisbane and had family Holidays up that way. great shots and keep um coming. You really do manage to capture the feeling of the place.You may have even inspired me to put up come local ones of the river Derwent.

Many thanks
o1

Thanks for your kind comments. Look forward to seeing your shots from Tassie

Another with some wildlife activity

big pix wrote:I find the sky to have a loss of detail and saturation.......you could try this with the flaten image......it was posted before......

thankyou to Russell Brown for the below....



Evaluate your channels
choose the channel with the most detail
Choose Select>all - Then choose Edit>copy.
go to layers select the background layer
Choose edit>paste
you should have a new layer 1 that is black and white

Now apply a blending mode to Layer 1
Choose layer 1
Select the move tool and then hold down the shift key and hit the minus key, and you will scroll through the different blending modes

Here is a different version using the above method. Improvements to teh sky but lost a lot the foreground detail.

More experimentation needed methinks

Wow! That first pano in the start looks wonderful. It's true that it could use a little bit more saturation, but having it like this gives it a more vintage kind of feel .... like it's very calm and quiet. Lovely. BTW, how did you manage to get the pictures stitched ? I believe you're using a special pan-head or something. I tried doing a few panoramas with my 70$ tripod but it's almost impossible to stitch them properly. I'm doing everything manually in Photoshop. Any good panorama tools ?

Thanks.

Regards,

Kamran

kamran wrote:Wow! That first pano in the start looks wonderful. It's true that it could use a little bit more saturation, but having it like this gives it a more vintage kind of feel .... like it's very calm and quiet. Lovely. BTW, how did you manage to get the pictures stitched ? I believe you're using a special pan-head or something. I tried doing a few panoramas with my 70$ tripod but it's almost impossible to stitch them properly. I'm doing everything manually in Photoshop. Any good panorama tools ?

Thanks.

Regards,

Kamran

Thanks Kamran.

Normal tripod shot in RAW with manual setting (speed, aperture, focus)kept the same for each shot. Saved as JPEGs with no adjustments at all.

Stitched with Panorama Factory. Have fun.

It's a really nice image Mark, very nicely balanced, but may have been helped with an extra frame or two to the right, not to say it's crap, because it isn't, it's great. It could perhaps use a little more contrast to get a bit more depth out of it. I am not sure if more saturation would be that useful as it would lose some of it's old world, retro charm. I feel that for the subject matter, less saturation works better.

Great image and i too am enjoying your Pumisetone passage pics.

Keep up the great work.

G'day Mark,
I'd agree with the extra room on the right, or maybe to have taken a few steps to the right and made the jetty/rail thing take more role as foreground interest.

But I really like "Heading home", very nice calm feel, soft but rich colours... Is it cropped at all? Just wondering if there's any room on the left maybe, cos more birds are flying out of the image instead of through it? Just a thought but very nice image...

This has been worked on with marks permission.......using a curves ajustment layer to darken the sky, a gradient to lighten the foreground applied in the layer mask and a bit of saturation to brighten the over all colour.......looking on this moniter it still looks a tad dark but a quick fix if needed.

the above took me about 1 1/2 minutes.....it took me longer to find the reference for the fix to refresh my memory.....must be the stella....

Mark, I love the 1st one you posted,

I could have sworn that the clouds were actually moving..

or Maybe its time for bed,12hr Nightshift now very sleepy.

Still I loveit.


MATT