Originally posted by baro-nite 6 shots at 20mm -- wow, that is wide. But the perspective looks very natural. Was that 2 rows of 3 in landscape mode?
Simply stunning, the golden light, reflections of both sky and castle, the snowy foreground. Obviously you had to do some exposure adjustments in post, but again, very natural in appearance (just the slightest halo around the castle, if you're looking for it).
Thank you very much Baro and Sailor!
Yes Baro. 2 rows with 3 in each. I have been doing this a lot lately but mostly with my 50/1.8 Voigtlander.
I did take another shot using the Voigt and 14 frames. Under is a mini version of that but Im not happy with it, yet anyways. Ill keep working on it.
That one is 15k pixels wide and that is after I cropped away a lot. Was propably something like 25k wide before I axed it.
I have done shots at 30k pixels wide but my computer starts to melt at 15 already.
Sometimes I have torestart LR and PS just to be able to work on them and I have a pretty ok Pc with 16gb Ram and i7 cpu + SSD disks.
I guess I need even more RAM and perhaps a second SSD dedicated to scratch.
And yes.
Some exposure adjustments on the foreground and the left horizon. Still not happy with the horizon. Hard to tame those harsh yellow/orange parts.
There was more halo round the roof but I managed to paint most away somehow. Still some work there obviously . Thank you for pointing that out
I did play with the panel "Adjustment/Color lookup" in PS6. Try it if you havnt already.
I set it to "Filmscore_5.3" and then used "Edit/Apply Image" so that I can control were the effect will be.
Something I have done a lot lately is to finish it of back in LR with some gradients layers. Something like this. From top to horizon or slightly under; LOTS of clarity. Then same on a second layer from bottom to horizon or slightly above. Also some shadows and highlights on those gradients if needed.
FAR FROM FINISHED IMAGE !