Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on April 23, 2017, 07:37:24 am
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Friary, dating from the early 15th century. It's seen better days.
There's a bit of tidying up to do in the processing, but I'd be interested to know if anyone thinks it worth the effort. Comments?
Jeremy
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Definitely worth the effort, Jeremy. How long was that exposure? Good effect with the clouds. My only gripe is that the left clerestory is chopped in half (or less). But I can see that at that lens length there wasn't room to include everything.
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The crop works for me. The clouds give a great sense of "time passing by" which obviously fits the subject. If you can avoid the haloing along the edges of the building, it would benefit the overal appearance.
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That's interesting; I don't see any haloing on my Spyder Elite calibrated screen. Weird.
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That's interesting; I don't see any haloing on my Spyder Elite calibrated screen. Weird.
Most definitely there. Local contrast or Clarity haloing. Masking the buildstructure and applying global contást in the sky would completely eliminate it, and would give a better sense of a building standing up against the passage of time, imo.
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There is a bit of a halo: that's what I meant by "tidying up … the processing". Interestingly, although it's easily visible onscreen (certainly on a full resolution file), it doesn't appear at all in print, even under a loupe.
The shot is a blend of a 15-second exposure for the sky and a rather longer one for the masonry. I need to do a bit of work on the mask. The longer exposure didn't actually blow the sky but it made it an awful lot less interesting.
Jeremy
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Fine image. Normally I don't much care for long exposure clouds, but here they complement the scene.
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Fine image. Normally I don't much care for long exposure clouds, but here they complement the scene.
I agree. I like the contrast in texture between the clouds and the building.
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Fine image. Normally I don't much care for long exposure clouds, but here they complement the scene.
Thanks, Rajan. I was ambivalent about them until I saw some of Vieri's posts here, which inspired me to have a bash (particularly one he posted taken from Zabriskie). I find the contrast between the immovable and permanent and the ephemeral rather appealing.
Now I need to prevent myself from over-using it.
Jeremy
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It certainly works beautifully in this shot.
Eric
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Now I need to prevent myself from over-using it.
No sweat, Jeremy. I promise to let you know if you use it more than once more.
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I see the haloing. But the average viewer probably wouldn't. One good way to avoid haloing is to select the part of the castle that meets the sky, copy and paste it as a layer. Make sure it is in perfect registration. Then below that layer create an empty layer and clone in the sku. The top layer of the castle will cover up excess.
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I like it. Good treatment for the subject. Post cleanup I bet it will make a fine finished product.
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Very nice Jeremy! :) Best regards,
Vieri