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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Bruce Cox on April 07, 2014, 12:27:55 pm

Title: With Light Rain
Post by: Bruce Cox on April 07, 2014, 12:27:55 pm

Should I have risked getting my camera wet? 

And-or do the artifacts from my relatively poor technique, while still in the drivers seat, add to the image?

Title: Re: With Light Rain
Post by: Bruno Gil on April 07, 2014, 01:14:57 pm

Still working on post?

Title: Re: With Light Rain
Post by: Bruce Cox on April 07, 2014, 01:56:48 pm

Quote from: Bruno Gil on April 07, 2014, 01:14:57 pm

Still working on post?

I hope not.  I am sure more could be done, but they are never going to be slick.  I stitched them together in PhotoShop first, but like this better.

Bruce

Title: Re: With Light Rain
Post by: Bruno Gil on April 07, 2014, 02:56:03 pm

Quote from: Bruce Cox on April 07, 2014, 01:56:48 pm

I hope not.  I am sure more could be done, but they are never going to be slick.  I stitched them together in PhotoShop first, but like this better.

Bruce

You prefer seeing the "non-stitch"?
What combo did you use?

Title: Re: With Light Rain
Post by: Bruce Cox on April 07, 2014, 06:18:37 pm

Earlier in the day I shot this culvert hand held, with eight frames and the same gear, but I had more light.  I shot the clouds , etc., in the evening at .6 sec resting the camera on the truck door.

Title: Re: With Light Rain
Post by: Bruce Cox on April 07, 2014, 06:37:01 pm

I used the cylindrical setting in photoshop for the culvert because "reposition", which I prefer, left some glitches and what good is a culvert if it doesn't flow?

I would need to learn how to remove vignetting or something from the f2.8 cloud files and they would still have at least four other problems.

Title: Re: With Light Rain
Post by: BernardLanguillier on April 08, 2014, 12:59:22 am

You may want to:
- adjust exposure down to the very RGB value in your raw converter or PS so as to have the same exposure,
- try using a real pano software like AutoPano pro or PTgui.

I am sure you could make this a lot more seamless.

Cheers,
Bernard

Title: Re: With Light Rain
Post by: Bruce Cox on April 08, 2014, 10:37:30 am

Quote from: BernardLanguillier on April 08, 2014, 12:59:22 am

You may want to:
- adjust exposure down to the very RGB value in your raw converter or PS so as to have the same exposure,
- try using a real pano software like AutoPano pro or PTgui.

I am sure you could make this a lot more seamless.

Cheers,
Bernard

Thanks to both of you.  I guess I will not know if I am keeping an artifact or glitch because I like it unless I can compare to the photo without it.  

I seem to have lost my very old copy of PTgui and to have yet more to learn.  

Bruce