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rga

Member
Tough scene to capture! Looks like a gorgeous venue though.
Do you use a polarizing filter? Might have taken some of the sheen off the yellow leaves.

Don't know if you bracketed at all, but if you did perhaps blending the frames with good shadows and good highlights might tame this image.

Best,
Bob
 

cs750

Member
Bob, thanks for the excellent suggestions. I did not use a polarizing filter, and only shot a verticle and this one. I was not prepared for this scene, had several people waiting for me to get out of the way... and just did the best I could with what I had on my camera. Maybe I can be better prepared next time! Charles
 

Bill Caulfeild-Browne

Well-known member
Might I suggest you use the Color Editor (Advanced) in C1, click on the very light yellow and then darken it?

It's a fine image as it is but it just might get a bit finer.....just saying'!

Bill
 

jlm

Workshop Member
I've been working over this file, thought i might present the current version and my process, certainly open to suggestions.

merged from two rotation panos, cambo 43sk, H39, processed in phocus. general exposure was bumped about 1.2 stops, a bit of highlight and shadow recovery
had to fiddle around with color balance and exposure to get the frames close. did this by picking a common area and matching rgb levels with the exposure adjustment, and also for setting wb. didn;t like the magenta cast in the right, so used lenscorrection (scene calibration in Phocus) with a 43mm lens/diffuser shot, previuosly saved. still too magenta, so I used the color picker for a right ceiling area, then de-saturated and hue shifted a bit to the green. finally added a bit of sharpening in PS (amount about 40).

tried photomerging (PS) but auto expanded the RH image vertically (keeping the ceiling pipes straight) requiring too much crop; cylindrical kept the pipe straight. but barrelled out the perimeters, as did auto geometric correction. finally settled with APG.

made a very nice 19 x 30 print, with a bit of noise in the shadows and more halo-ing around the far windows than i would like. had tried various levels of clarity, highlight recovery and un-sharp mask; the halos are in the image due to the backlight and all that blown dust, but not that much

 
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tjv

Active member
Jim, to my eyes I prefer your second example. It seems more natural, especially with regard to clarity settings.
 

MGrayson

Subscriber and Workshop Member
jlm,

The first example shows up with weird halos around the windows. I often have brush boundary artifacts show up on a different system that were invisible when processed. The second is smooth.

Beautiful picture!

Matt
 

jlm

Workshop Member
thanks for the comments, 2nd is my perference as well. those were shot with the blad, so phocus. capture 1 has the local adjustment tool where i might have treated the rh highlight area with a bit more recovery (as in the first image) compared to the back windows where it would halo
 

cs750

Member
Bill thanks again. This was a wonderful trip to Arizona. There was a storm in Monument Valley which I understand is rare for October. The storm then followed us to Canyon de Chelly where it snowed and rained. The snow melted quickly, but the next morning it was 22 degrees in the Canyon. Charles
 
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