Very beautiful, Patrice. I use similar techniques blending different exposures or just different conversions - in PS - although less complicated - in order to get what I want. My problem is burned out high lights. So I underexpose. Getting the colours right later often requires some work. Regards Jens
Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Patrice LACOUTURE (GMail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 14. januar 2006 00:02 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: PESO Pano #5 (from last years big drive) Rob Studdert Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:05:31 -0800 > [...about pano of The Gawler Ranges...] > Great picture, Rob. Crisp and contrasty all over the place, except at the rightmost 3rd, but well, there must be a place on the picture where the sun is in the back. In this case, fortunately it's the least interesting place in your image, and it doesn't show much. > The image spans a view of approximately 230° x 80° and as such given the high > contrast of the scene the sky is somewhat burnt out in parts. The beauty is > that I have plenty of scope now to crop plus I could potentially repair the sky > if I had the time or patience. > I faced the same issue a while ago with a pano picture. (I did a post here a few months ago as a PESO submission). http://www.lacouture.nom.fr/gallery/v/PESO/Bertagne002-small.jpg.html (be sure you see it in "full size", which is actuall reduced to 50%) I wanted to have the sun in the frame, and be well-exposed all over the frame. I sorted out the thing at shooting time, by doing two exposures of the whole pano, one measured for the sun, the other measured for the other direction (on tripod, of course). Then used Hugin to stitch the two panos at the same time (as a single pano, output as multiple TIFFs), then enblended into a separate pano for each exposure. Then I merged these two panos with PS using appropriate layers and masks. Shooting raw greatly helped fine-tuning the two exposures for a good blend. I'm not completely happy with it, as there is still some hint of the 2 exposures blending. However it's still much better than what I would have achieved with a single exposure. Not sure this helps with your image, but might for a future one. Best regards Patrice
