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    Liverpool Night and Day

    Phil Page,s lovely panorama of Dubai prompted me to dig out one of my few panoramas for you.

    Liverpool Night and Day

    Comments or questions always welcomed.

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    Gary, Perfection. Can we have the technical details on this one ?

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    Lovely and accomplished panorama, Wayland. I especially like the contrast between the "three graces" on the right and the new stuff on the left -I know which I prefer

    Did you take the shots from right across the estuary?

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    No problem Grahame.

    The Daytime shot was taken just before sunset. 16 vertical FF RAW shots at 135mm 1/5 of a second f/16 iso.100

    The night shot was about an hour later, 13 vertical FF RAW shots at 135mm 4 seconds f/8 iso.100

    Day and Night frames were imported separately into Photoshop from Lightroom as layers and then composited manually with layer masks.

    Once these panoramas were completed I opened flattened versions as layers into a new Photoshop file and then vertically flipped the night shot and manually blended them with layer masks.

    There was a bit of local contrast management as usual but I guess it's the compositing you want to know most about.

    Dave, I was positioned on the dockside near Alfred Dock on the Wallasey side of the Mersey. It's a great viewpoint although I felt a little exposed out there on my own at night.

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    Very nice imagery and great PP... The problem with panos is that they are always too small when viewed on a monitor! I would expect that this image would be absolutely smashing if viewed as a print about .3 meters high vertically with the horizontal stretch falling where it might!

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    You can see a slightly bigger copy on my web site here if you like.

    As you say though, there is enough detail in the capture to fill a billboard.

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    Thank Gary,

    A great concept and one of the first I have seen using the different times of day. A pity that the ferry had sailed

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    Very nicely done, Gary, and a good concept

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    Great idea and execution Gary, thanks for sharing

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    Quote Originally Posted by Stagecoach View Post
    Thank Gary,

    A great concept and one of the first I have seen using the different times of day. A pity that the ferry had sailed
    That was a bit of a shame but not much I could do about it unfortunately.

    Such is the passage of time.

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    Phil, seeing the Pans you have done I can't help thinking there is a good opportunity for you there.

    Dave, Glad you like it. As far as I am concerned sharing is what photography is all about.

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    Quote Originally Posted by Wayland View Post
    You can see a slightly bigger copy on my web site here if you like.

    As you say though, there is enough detail in the capture to fill a billboard.
    Thanks, very nice imagery all around...

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    Very nice, must have been hard to stop at 16?

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    Re: Liverpool Night and Day

    It's an immense file that is for certain. I tend to overlap the frames by a little over half so that if any individual file has a problem then there may be enough information on the adjacent frames.

    I've trimmed a little off the ends of the daylight composite that's why the night composite features less frames. The buildings at the extremities had much less interest in the dark.

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