Pacific Coast Seascape at Twilight

[Peter Ryan]

Interesting option Colin. I learn again. Thanks.

[dmichaud]

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

Dave

[Colin Southern]

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

Dave

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.

[JK6065]

psst

[dmichaud]

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.

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

[Colin Southern]

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

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).

[Peter Ryan]

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.

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.

[Colin Southern]

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.

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).

[Peter Ryan]

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.