Thanks, Jack. It's no big deal, realy. Working in Photoshop CS (a lot of other applications can do this). I just cut out the swans (which I photographed aq little later that morning, at the same place, using the same lens). I softened the edges and pasted the birds into the panorama in PS (seperate layer). I had to work a little more on the edges. Then I added some redish to the white highlights on th birds (light from from the rising sun).
The hard work was realy getting the colours of the panorama right. Photographs like this has to be underexposed (0.3-0.7 F-stop) in order to minimize burned high lights. The colours of the overall image will, however, suffer a bit from this. In order to get the colours right, I have discovered that its' beneficial to make several different additonal layers in PS (auto levels, auto colours, auto contrast) and then mix these, setting different opacity for each layer). At last I use the Shadow/highlight tool to lift up the dark parts as well as adding mid-tone contast (brillinat tool, which does make burned highlights worse). I have also lifted the red levels to make the sun light in the clouds stand out more. Then I resize from 72 ppi to 300 ppi, crop and sharpen. Of course I have initially made the raw-concersions and the panorama image (Phase One and PhotoVista). I guess I have spent perhaps 4-6 hours making this photograph - not counting the actual shooting of course. So, this is rally a days work. (I may sell it some day). When I get a little better, I can probably do it all in a 2-3 hours, shooting included. I am going to this printed in 1000 x 300mm (300 ppi) any day soon. Perhaps even larger :-) Jens Bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Jack Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 21. oktober 2005 19:07 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: PESO: 35 Mpx image from *ist D Jens, Technically amazing stuff. Maybe there will come a day when I'll dare even begin reading about such manipulations. Won't be soon. Swans are a nice touch. Jack --- Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It took me a lot of work in Photovista and Photoshop CS as well as 24 > single > images to makes this 35 Mpx/100 MB panorama: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/54605582/ > > I rarely manipulate images very much, but I just couldn't resist > adding the > swans to this image :-) > Comments are welcome > Jens Bladt > Arkitekt MAA > http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
