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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:54 am
by sjordan93436
A couple of my favorite photos of 2011. Both taken in October.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:58 pm
by ggroess
Wonderful stuff Steve...
Merry Christmas to you and yours...
Greg
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:04 pm
by imported_ganna
It is midsummer in South Africa, and this is what our Santa look like
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:23 pm
by ggroess
Nice...I'm glad our Santa has to wear an overcoat....
Greg
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:54 am
by sjordan93436
This is NOT fine photography. It has not been corrected, but it is fun. With my iphone and photosynth. You press once, it takes the first shot and then move the camera (oops phone) around and voila.
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 3:31 pm
by ggroess
Steve,
I tried my hand at fixing the perspective...
What do you think...
Greg
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:57 pm
by sjordan93436
Thanks Greg. Better than when I tried.
BTW- last spring I posted an image about an artichoke field. I revisited that image to print it large. Second pass and third pass really improved it. I dived into CS5 single image HDR as suggested. I got lost with all the options. I am in the process of printing it 36 by 72 for a convention. It is instructive to go big for an amateur like me. I found a pro with a large format printer and a Dan Margulis fan.
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:27 am
by ggroess
And the results???
How does it look?
Greg
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:40 pm
by sjordan93436
This is a handheld pano of around 180 degrees with 17 images to stitch..... originally 3,000 by 6,000 pixels or so.
This is near the end. This new second pass is an improvement, but some improvements are hard to see at this enlargement. I pushed LR camera raw settings too much before. Exposure down, recovery up, fill light etc. Somehow that caused some problems with the panorama stitching. Several small but bad problems. This time the stitching worked great. Don't know why (and don't really care). Then I worked with the masks and moved some lines and the details cleaned up. Just a little clone stamp. I did a 16 by 33 test print, and the only problem was some content aware "debris". I know it is there and if I point it out, it is obvious. A little clone stamp or crop will finish it. Goal is a 36 by 72. Not fine art, but commercially nice.
The color issue were: with color boost the sky became too much. The plants or the right had different color than the ones on the left. The clouds blew out easily, and the dark horizon needed enhancement. Solution: I had to do several adjustments with hand painted masks and work on the blends. Each adjustment was with CM.