Pacific Coast Seascape at Twilight

Interesting option Colin. I learn again. Thanks.

Hey Colin, thanks for taking the time to make this alternative, I like it.

Dave

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Originally Posted by dmichaud

Hey Colin, thanks for taking the time to make this alternative, I like it.

Dave

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No worries Dave. I worked on the levels and saturation as best I could -- the stretching just gives it a panoramic look, which is something I often do.

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Originally Posted by Colin Southern

No worries Dave. I worked on the levels and saturation as best I could -- the stretching just gives it a panoramic look, which is something I often do.

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So Colin, so did you reduce the saturation? I wondered if my version looked a bit over the top and distracting?

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Originally Posted by dmichaud

So Colin, so did you reduce the saturation? I wondered if my version looked a bit over the top and distracting?

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Yes, no, and maybe!

In all seriousness, saturation interacts with levels ... the higher the levels (past a certain point) the more the saturation washes out ... increasing or decreasing is something that needs to be adjusted (or re-adjusted) as you fiddle with the levels. But to answer the question, yes, I think I did knock it back 10 to 20% (but there were a lot of levels adjustments anyway, do not sure how it ended up) (was a pretty hard job on a small JPEG).

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Originally Posted by Colin Southern

No worries Dave. I worked on the levels and saturation as best I could -- the stretching just gives it a panoramic look, which is something I often do.

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Very interesting this stretching. The subject has to fit it but the idea of stretching the right subject means you don’t lose pixels by cropping to fit a panorama format.

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Originally Posted by Peter Ryan

Very interesting this stretching. The subject has to fit it but the idea of stretching the right subject means you don’t lose pixels by cropping to fit a panorama format.

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Hi Peter,

In practive, I use a combination of both. With UWA lenses I typically capture too much sky and/or foreground, so I crop that off first, and then let Photoshop adjust what remains to be the aspect ratio I want.

In reality, things with long horizontal features (like horizons) stretch pretty well - even those with people in them (in so far as going from a 1:1.5 -> 1:2.0 stretch goes).

I had a customer come to me at the market and loved a shot of barbed wire I had cropped into a 1:3 pano but it was taken with my D70 so was only about 6mp (RAW file) before the crop. He wanted it 6 foot long to make a statement.

By using this method of stretching I can probably get closer to what he wants (say 5 foot at least), printed on canvass and viewed at a distance. Anyway it got me thinking and running some sizes and I think it would work BUT I did write down his number and have misplaced it. NEXT TIME.

Thanks Colin.