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Johnzabriskie, pre-sunrise
Where's the jaw-meet-floor smiley when you need it, eh? The tones in the landscape are incredible.moon, zabriskie, pre-dawn, two shot pano, 120SK
Thank you Joe! Yes, the rocks remain a mystery, the classic conundrum wrapped in a enigma...Jack,
Outstanding! Those radio-controlled rocks are amazing, aren't they?
Joe
I'll answer for John, not my shot, but I was thereJust one question - has the Moon somehow got distorted in the stitching or is it lens distortion?
It doesn't look circular to my eyes (stretched along the south-west>north-east axis), and the EXIF shows a 1 second exposure which I wouldn't expect to provide sufficient movement to give the same result.
:thumbup: That is a great news :thumbup:In addition, this Alpa Lens Corrector tool will soon be available (within this month) in its 64-bit version (to be used with ONLY for Apple OSX 10.5 and above as well as with Photoshop CS 5 and above).
Thierry
¿Does this apply to heads?Yes, the only solution is to take a longer FL, actually as long as possible when such round or spherical objects are to be reproduced without distorsion.
Thierry
Thanks for the feedback. I am still learning C1 as this was my first try, and I think my laptop and desktop have two different calibrations on the monitors. I like the subtle changes you made where the colors dont seem as over saturated and dont bleed as much into each other.Hi Bryan,
That's a really nice shot. There are two things I'd note, both of them related more to how you've processed them for posting than to the shooting itself.
The first is that you've compressed it enough that there's some pretty noticeable banding, especially in the sky. I seem to be more sensitive to that than most people, but at least to me it detracts quite a bit, especially from a shot that starts out this nice.
The second is sort of similar -- as it stands right now, you're not really using very close to all the range available in a JPEG (which is already a lot fewer than you have in the original capture). In particular, you're missing much of anything that resembles a really deep black (again -- almost certainly present in the raw file, but lost in the JPEG as it stands right now).
I don't know anything about how you've set up your computer for processing, but the latter is particularly common with people who haven't calibrated their monitor -- most monitors are set at pretty high contrast and saturation by default, so a JPEG like this will look pretty good. On a calibrated monitor, however, it looks a little dull and flat. I hope you'll forgive my posting a mildly edited version (which I'll remove immediately, if you prefer):
Note that any apparent increase in saturation here is a side-effect of the contrast -- I didn't touch the saturation levels at all. Literally, all I did was adjust the levels in Ps and re-save.