Camogli in the sea storm

[Marco Dadone]

sd1 + 10-20 old + lee filters + plenty of water everywhere!

 

[whisky]

Hi Marco,

Sure is a bit different mood from your previous picture, seems like the weather there can also be a bit rough :-O

Looks like another lovely place in spite of the storm.

Cheers.

 

[Vector12]

Remarkable photograph; you've outdone yourself this time!

 

[maceoQ]

Hi Marco

I prefer your first composition, few days/weeks ago.
In this image i wish there was a bit more space above the church tower.
Also there is lots of blotches and noise in the image.

I find it hard to get good image quality with longer exposures with the SD1.
The SD15 was much more forgiving.

Maceo

 

[Marco Dadone]

thanks Whisky, Vector and Maceo.

For the blotches and noise, there are a little it's true, as I was reconsidering to convert the image in a B&W version, that could be even more dramatic, here it is:

 

[Marek L]

I love both of them; magnificent shot !!!!!!!

 

[Marco Dadone]

thank v.m. Marek, it was sure a very wet shot!!

 

[Roland Karlsson]

Very nice image. Looks like an illustration from an old mystery book.

I assume your 10-20 could not cover more and you had to choose between water and sky. Some few mm over the church tower would not be entirely wrong. Not much, just a little. Maybe some careful cloning work of the rather even sky could do the trick.

I know you cannot retake the image so easily, but a good advice (and something I often do) is to take an extra image pointing slightly up. Then I can stitch some extra sky if needed.

Regarding the red/green splotches. That is an irritating property of the Foveon technology. I assume you can desaturate some in those parts where it shows up the most.

Those red/green splotches are very distinct if you increase saturation. Which makes me believe that it should be possible to detect them and automatically decrease it.

 

[whisky]

Very nice image. Looks like an illustration from an old mystery book.

I know you cannot retake the image so easily, but a good advice (and something I often do) is to take an extra image pointing slightly up. Then I can stitch some extra sky if needed.

/Roland
X3F tools:
http://www.proxel.se/x3f.html
https://github.com/rolkar/x3f

Now there's a good idea !!!!

Who says this Forum is a waste of time

Cheers.

 

[J. Michael]

I like the B&W version almost more than the color version.

One way to help mitigate the color blotching that can help some images, if you have photoshop, is to open the 16 bit tif image out of SPP in Adobe bridge. Right click on the image and select "open in camera raw".

The Image will open in Adobe Camera Raw and you will have access to all the adjustments that are used to convert raw images that ACR supports.

Select the adjustment for HSL in the upper right of the adjustments panel. In CS5 its the 4th icon in from the left.

Select Hue, and move both the Aqua and Purple sliders towards blue, adjusting to taste.

This won't work on all images, but for yours it seems to clean up nicely.
Hope this helps.

Again, very nice shot......could use a little more sky above the tower, but that a nit.

Mike

Hope you don't mind. I used your image to illustrate the adjustment.

A larger version of the ACR screen capture is here:

http://upload.pbase.com/nidoba/image/154110106/original

 

[Marco Dadone]

Thank you very much for the helpful words, i will try...
that s what a forum is for!!

 

[Roland Karlsson]

Very nice image. Looks like an illustration from an old mystery book.

I know you cannot retake the image so easily, but a good advice (and something I often do) is to take an extra image pointing slightly up. Then I can stitch some extra sky if needed.

/Roland
X3F tools:
http://www.proxel.se/x3f.html
https://github.com/rolkar/x3f

Now there's a good idea !!!!

Thanks

Who says this Forum is a waste of time

It mostly is

 

[whisky]

Very nice image. Looks like an illustration from an old mystery book.

I know you cannot retake the image so easily, but a good advice (and something I often do) is to take an extra image pointing slightly up. Then I can stitch some extra sky if needed.

/Roland
X3F tools:
http://www.proxel.se/x3f.html
https://github.com/rolkar/x3f

Now there's a good idea !!!!

Thanks

Who says this Forum is a waste of time

It mostly is

You may have a point there ;-)

Cheers.

 

[David Nall]

sd1 + 10-20 old + lee filters + plenty of water everywhere!

Excellent image and processing. It seems the consensus wants more sky above the church steeple. That is pretty easily accomplished in CS6 and probably earlier versions as well. Just use the crop tool, and move the top up leaving an empty box. Now use the rectangle marque tool and draw around the box with the bottom edge slightly into the frame. Then go to Edit/Fill, and in the use box, use content aware, and Normal at 100% and click OK. The sky will be enlarged. Use the clone tool to take out any obvious duplications if any. This is very handy. Here I also straightened the horizon a little and redefined the top of the steeple, and lowered the blue level.

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[Marco Dadone]

thank You David, of course I know Your "long beard" from the landscape forum!
In the original shot I had a little more sky, so I think it will be possibile to re-elaborate the original raw without pp and cloning too much (that is a remarkable result, but makes the image unable to partecipate at any photographic competition, cause cloning is not admitted) so I'll try first this way, together with the anti-blotches treatment, and let's see what comes up. Thank You for the time spent and the comments!

marco

 

[Roland Karlsson]

Impressive work!

 

[larryj]

sd1 + 10-20 old + lee filters + plenty of water everywhere!

Great image marcodadofoto: It really does show a deep and somber mood with a touch of mystery ;O)>. Thanks for sharing.

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[Marco Dadone]

Thanks Larry v.m.!