azay-le-rideau

[Jeremy Roussak]

8-shot stitch of perhaps the prettiest of the Loire chateaux. Comments?

Jeremy

[DarkPenguin]

Now that's a blue not normally seen in nature.  (Haloing around the trees in the sky, too.)  The darkness of the cloud above the chateaux gives the image an odd weight.  The touch of land on the lower right doesn't really belong.

Nice enough image otherwise.  Pretty building and I like the water with reflection.

[Dick Roadnight]

8-shot stitch of perhaps the prettiest of the Loire chateaux. Comments?

Jeremy

Pity we cannot see all the detail on the web...

Stonework is a great argument for High res.

Some might consider the colours OTT Velvia ++ but I think it is great.

[francois]

Sweet image but I would tend to agree with DarkPenguin about the blue of the sky. For me, it's a bit over the top.

[Vuurtoren]

Hi there, Of course it is a nice photo.  Unfortunately, do you perhaps not think that it might be spoiled by the over-saturated blue?  take this out and the trees will dramatically improve, I think the halo around the cloud will disappear as well,  and the water reflection will become much warmer.  Also I would work at the contrast on the focal point - that is the castle - by increasing the lighter area to make it more brighter.  after all this try a high pass filter at around 5 to 10 pixels and do a linear light blend mode ONLY on the castle.

Hope this helps.  Chris.

[AndrewKulin]

Agree with all comments about the over-saturated blue sky.

[Ed Blagden]

The sky really bothers me - the image looks as if the picture of the Chateau has been superimposed on top of another image of a cloud in an over-saturated sky.  Nice composition though.

Ed

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thanks, all. On reflection, (and pace Dick) I think the sky is rather overdone. I'm not really sure how it got that way, though: the originals that I fed into AutoPano weren't so saturated but on restoring the ProPhoto profile to AutoPano's output, bang! Trying to reduce the saturation gave weird-looking dark haloes around the clouds. There's too much of this photography stuff I still don't understand.

Anyway, here is a revised version, with rather more natural-looking (to my eye) colour: I've also used cylindrical rather than planar mapping, which I think gives a more accurate result.

Dick, I've attached three 100% crops, from the extreme right, the centre tower and the tower at the rear (the latter two are attached to my next post because of restrictions on the total attachment size).

Jeremy

[Jeremy Roussak]

More crops.

Jeremy

[Dick Roadnight]

Dick, I've attached three 100% crops, from the extreme right, the centre tower and the tower at the rear (the latter two are attached to my next post because of restrictions on the total attachment size).

Jeremy

Thank you... very good,,, and the colour is better too.