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| Russ Pearce (rrruss) Msg: #1 May 30th 2007 02:57:36 | Another panorama from me! We took a trip up to the wine producing area of Cafayate in the Salta region of Northern Argentina. I've boosted the saturation a bit but obviously I'm not happy with the burn out in the sky on the left. Am I better off cropping or is there something else I can do about it? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #2 May 30th 2007 04:42:20 | Here's a couple of ideas. First I used the Burn tool to make the mountains a bit darker, bring out some detail. Then I used the Paint Brush, selected a blue from an area of the sky, set the opacity to ~20%, and painted some color into the pure white areas. I didn't do a careful job, just enough to illustrate an idea. Let's see what you can make it look like. ;o) |
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| Justin Watson (Justin) Msg: #3 May 30th 2007 11:14:49 | hmm not sure about this one myself. I agree with Bob's suggestions. Its good to practice panorama techniques, but not sure this photo really grabs me in any way. A suggestion to try. Take the panorama shots in a portrait orientation and join them. Still take it as a horizontal panorama just try it shooting portrait orientation. Sometimes you can get a better result and worth practicing. Not sure it would have been better for this shot, but maybe we'd have got some more foreground to add to the photo.... | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Msg: #4 May 31st 2007 02:37:31 | Nice shot - I like the way the rows of vines provide perspective, but I suspect Justin might be right about shooting in vertical in this case. I tend to think that pano's are better with a strong edge, or a diminished edge - this just feels slightly cut off, your glacier shot was a perfect example of a "diminished edge" pano IMO. The two I've linked at the end of this post are "strong edge" panos - where the edges anchor the frame. The solution to the sky is to shoot an HDR panorama. Set the camera to auto-exposure bracket, then set it to -2 0 +2 - check that you're getting the whole dynamic range by looking at the histogram. Then shoot each frame of the panorama as usual - but as a bracket set. Stitch it using the latest version of PTgui Pro, which is HDR aware. I've shot a number of HDR panos in the past, and they've been... tricky... to merge well - but they're not an insoluble problem with the right software. That was before PTgui Pro came along - I suspect that'll do things far more easily :) I'd stitch/mergeToHDR in PTgui, then tonemap in Photomatix myself - as it gives you more flexibility. If I remember rightly, both panos on this page were HDR: HK2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Russ Pearce (rrruss) Msg: #5 May 31st 2007 19:11:03 | Okay, I lost patience trying to use the burn tool on the mountains so i went back to my original idea of rotating slightly and cropping, plus filling in a bit of the burnt out sky. It's not easy using a compact digital to make panoramas is it?! I tried a couple in portrait but the camera only gives assistance in landscape so the joins were not great and the software struggled a bit to give me enough surface area to work with! I must practice more at judging the alignments with no assistance. I will post a panoramic soon of the amazing landscape of Cafayate. |
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| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Msg: #6 June 1st 2007 13:55:50 | At least the camera gives assistance in landscape orientation - with dSLRs it's either guesstimate, or buy a proper panoramic tripod head ;) It's easiest to shoot pano from a tripod, but you need to ensure that the tripod legs are 100% level - so a tripod with a sprit-level built in is handy there... Looking forward to the next installment! | |||||||||||||||||||||
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