Originally posted by trishytee I am quite pleased with this image, even though it tends to be a tad brighter to the left. I would love some clouds though, but friend does not want.
That is probably natural polarization of the sky, because your pano is so wide.
Originally posted by trishytee I have just noticed that when I bring this picture up larger there seem to be striations across the image? Any idea what that might be, and can I get rid of it?
JPEG compression, and/or downsizing the image to forum posting size. The blues are really close together, but not quite similar. The compression algorithm really wants to see values that are the same, so it can compress the file. When you choose a lower-quality output, it forces the values to be similar, then happily makes the file really small. Just be careful with downsizing and compression.
I had the same two issues today. I used a fisheye lens at 10mm so the field of view included sky in very different angles to the sun, so I got uneven color. And I saved the file in CS5 at quality level 8, which I thought was good enough. At 12 it looks fine.