...a very nice sunset pano and another chance to try to validate
a postprocessing technique I've been using on shots that seem
to me to have too much almost solid black in them. I'm not sure
if you are interested in technical feedback, or just want us all to say,
"Great shot!" But since giving technical info is pretty much all I do
here, I've got some for you. You can of course ignore it.
Sometimes you want to direct the viewer away from certain areas
of the photo, so you intentionally darken them or keep them dark if
that's what the camera gave you, but in the case of this shot I think
it can be improved by being able to better see a very interesting skyline
which is obscured, at least on my gamma 2.2 monitors, by the clouds in
the lower part of the sky being almost as dark as the land below. So
to get more contrast at the skyline I applied the following formula in
Photoshop 6: select shadows, feather 20, copy, paste, levels gamma 2,
usm-30-50-0, opacity 50%. This formula lightens the dark areas like a
fill-in flash without affecting the light or bright areas and blends the
effect smoothly. I think the fill-in flash function in newer photo editors
such as Elements might provide a similar effect in just one step.
Here is the result on your image:
This is a four shot pano shot on the 30th, I know what I see.
--
Roy F.
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