Landscapes - Archive

[Antonio Correia]

A rather pleasant sunrise over some fog drenched farmland. I love fog

Fog gives indeed very nice images... I do have some - a few indeed - and I also like the mood that it gives to the landscape.
Your photo is interesting and transmits the idea.
Thank you for posting

[TARI]

A beautiful lake on the way to the mountain Krn, Slovenia (peak in the background). Panorama from 7 photos.
on Google Maps

[Antonio Correia]

A beautiful lake on the way to the mountain Krn, Slovenia (peak in the background). Panorama from 7 photos.
on Google Maps

Tari this is very nice
Perhaps you could darken a bit the image on the right ... or it's my monitor...
The persons on location give a sense of scale to the scene.
Well done
Thank you for posting

[Mister Mateo]

More fog!

[Antonio Correia]

More fog!

Strange fog ... The Sun is shinning and there is fog. Well, everything is possible indeed.
Is the water at high temperature ?
Thank you for posting

[dogald]

My contribution...


newhotel by dogald, on Flickr


An old Hotel in Paris, Ontario...still functioning, and with a good dining room. I tried to improve the perspective, but it is not quite right?

[carregwen]

More fog!

Matt,

A good shot, but I think it looks a lot better as a letterbox cut with the horizon more on the thirds line. I did an edit - hope you don't mind. The boat is now in just the right place, I think.

[Antonio Correia]

My contribution...

newhotel by dogald, on Flickr An old Hotel in Paris, Ontario...still functioning, and with a good dining room. I tried to improve the perspective, but it is not quite right?

Thank you Douglas for posting here
Your pictures has a great difference between shadows and light or - saying another way - between facades. However, you have details in the shadows and in the lights.
Perhaps your photo has a too strong/severe crop and it could benefit from a wider view. Doing this, you might get some kind of object like a tree for example to place in the foreground to give depth to the picture. You could even use a sufficient DOF not to focus the foreground object.
If you live in the area perhaps you could make the image in more flattering hour of the day...

Your perspective correction is just fine but I see a little white knotty triangle at the top right ...

[Antonio Correia]

My contribution...

newhotel by dogald, on Flickr An old Hotel in Paris, Ontario...still functioning, and with a good dining room. I tried to improve the perspective, but it is not quite right?

Thank you Douglas for posting here
Your pictures has a great difference between shadows and light or - saying another way - between facades. However, you have details in the shadows and in the lights.
Perhaps your photo has a too strong/severe crop and it could benefit from a wider view. Doing this, you might get some kind of object like a tree for example to place in the foreground to give depth to the picture. You could even use a sufficient DOF not to focus the foreground object.
If you live in the area perhaps you could make the image in more flattering hour of the day...

Your perspective correction is just fine but I see a little white knotty triangle at the top right ...
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Matt, A good shot, but I think it looks a lot better as a letterbox cut with the horizon more on the thirds line. I did an edit - hope you don't mind. The boat is now in just the right place, I think.

This is indeed a better and more suitable crop Good suggestion Rob I was not able to see this before

[Dave Humphries]

I tried to improve the perspective, but it is not quite right?

Hi Dogald,

I can tell you what I think is wrong with it - but only because I have done it (wrong like this) myself

There is a slight lean to the left (i.e. it needs a twist clockwise by a small amount).
I say this because I think one would expect the nearest building corner to be vertical and it isn't - this can be proven by massively zooming the image until a horizontal scroll bar can be used to place it against the browser window edge.

Of course, the 'killer' is that if you straighten the sides and then see the middle is slightly off vertical (as here), rotating the whole image as normal makes the edges go out again
I would suggest that you don't want to straighten-transform-straighten-transform-straighten-transform as each time it is interpolating and must inevitably reduce sharpness and detail, especially in the image corners.

On a shot like this where you intend to perspective correct, a workflow I have used is to;
a) decide which building corner is going to be vertical and make it so* with the straighten tool first (I use the one in Elements' version of ACR)
b) do all the other stuff in ACR, then open image in Elements (or PS)
c) use the transform method (I can't remember the name of it) that allows individual 'pulling' of the left and right sides of image, this allows you to get any vertical building edges near the image edges parallel to the sides
d) assuming the building's corner was about halfway across the image, as here, it should be ok.

If it wasn't, say it was on a third, then in step a), instead of straightening, you have to guess an amount of rotation that will be imparted by 'pulling' the edges vertical so that after you get the edge verticals parallel to the images sides, the one on the third is correct and leave it not vertical by that amount.

While this workflow has worked for me, but it can still be an iterative process though (if it goes wrong, I start over in ACR, for reasons above), so there may be a better way - perhaps someone else can share theirs? Yes, I think there must be.

EDIT UPDATE: Here's a thought on how to make life easier - forget doing the initial straighten in ACR, when you're in Elements/PS, extend the canvas on left or right to get the desired nearest building corner exactly mid-image, straighten it to vertical. Now when you transform to correct verticals, that line shouldn't move and I also think you shouldn't need to do the left and right sides individually. Obviously once it is done, just crop off the blank canvas you added. I can't try it as I'm at work right now and don't have a photo editing program (or picture) to try it out on - and I should be working


In respect of the top right corner in your picture, the triangle means you have probably already tried to straighten it - 'the knack' is remembering to check all corners after a straighten and either crop further, or clone in adjacent detail, as appropriate. The latter is easy with sky and should be done here.


The other thing I'd say looking at this particular building is that with the nearest corner on the halfway mark, one has an (unfounded) expectation that the three "pointy bits" (gable ends) across the front are the same size as those down the right hand side, but they are not, they are narrower. But it might contribute to the 'looking wrong' feeling - I find it makes the front look too small for the building's side - if you know what I mean.

Hope that helps,

[Mister Mateo]

Matt,

A good shot, but I think it looks a lot better as a letterbox cut with the horizon more on the thirds line. I did an edit - hope you don't mind. The boat is now in just the right place, I think.
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Looks good I agree, the horizon was a little too close to the center line. Thanks for the edit.

[triggerhappy]

Captured just last weekend.




enjoy.

[pono]

If I could remember (or be a***** to look) where the 'delete member' button is....

Perhaps something in the middle - perfectly pitched between the industrial savagery/societies laid waste thing and the sweeping glory of the North Wales mountains/pretty picture postcard for Wirefox's Audi set? What about Bridgend High Street?



I load the RAW files, make adjustments, select them all, then synch them. Then I load them all to Photoshop CS5 and use FILE\AUTOMATE\PHOTOMERGE. Works great. The other thing is I shot it on the humble Panasonic G1.

I use CS3, and every time I use photomerge (not very often), the images never seem to line up just right. I read something about finding the nadal of the lens you're using, but my tripod is cheap, and i don't think i can do that. Is it necessary to find that point for photomerge to line the images up correctly?

[JJvanDelft]

Hi,
This picture was taken in central South Africa near the town of Bethulie. What interessted me most is the fresh spring color of the Willow and the small river. Any comments are welcom. Thanks

[Wirefox]

This shot was actually taken for b/w but I kind of liked the colour image too.

[DavidM]

Taken at Tomakin on the South Coast. A local beach for Canberra residents.

[Peter Ryan]

Taken at Tomakin on the South Coast. A local beach for Canberra residents.

Hi David and welcome to CiC. What time of day was this taken? I assume an early morning shot and the auto white balance has not corrected properly for the blue cast you get before the sun comes up. I normally shoot sunrises and sunsets with the white balance set to Cloudy to compensate. He is what I mean.



Having said that I was showing a professional photographer a sunset shot I took and he said “No. It is a sunrise”.

I said I should know when I took it and he replied. “Always tell them it is a sunrise. Anyone can take a sunset but only professional photographers get up for sunrises.”

[DavidM]

Thanks for the comment. It was actually taken in the Afternoon, with a 135mm lens. I tried various white balance settings, but liked the blue effect.

[Peter Ryan]

Thanks for the comment. It was actually taken in the Afternoon, with a 135mm lens. I tried various white balance settings, but liked the blue effect.

It is a very soft light for an afternoon, particularly in Australia. Well done on achieving the effect.

[arith]

Bleak Place

5 image stitch redo from canon 10D with 28mm prime.



Oh yes Burton Washlands Cherry Orchard.