My Way

Uploaded: May 27, 2005 14:11:31

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My usual walking tour, not far from my house. Nature was damp after a thundershower, and I was attracted by the wet foliage and asphalt, and the nice sunset. Two landscape format images stitched vertically to get super wide FOV with DRebel and 17 mm focal length (effective 28 mm). Shutter speed: 1/125 + 1/320 sec, Aperture: 7,1, ISO: 100, Focal length: 17mm. Shot RAW, converted with slight sharpening with CaptureOne: 5 16bit TIFF(two grass, foliage, asphalt / two sky / one horizon and fog), combined them in PS with some gradient layers (multiply blended for the sky, soft light blended for grass and foliage), then stitched two composites as panorama with Canon`s Photo Stitch sw. Another workup for the pano with PS to finetune the tones and color contrast (hard light blended gradient mask for some parts of the sky, vivid light blended layer mask for the asphalt and parts of the grass). At last, selective sharpening for the foreground. Again, much PS doctoring, but the original image was

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Cora Miller level-classic July 23, 2005

I find the light in your images amazing! Thank you for including detailed steps of the work you did to achieve the final results, very informative. Congratulations, Carsten, on another excellent finalist! #282571

Carsten Ranke July 23, 2005

Thank you, Cora for your comment ! #1624090

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