[Leica] Panoramas - Aldeburgh Improved and a New One From Mistley

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Richard:

This is sooo much better to my eye.... a nice soft ominous moodiness yet 
  much more detail in the fortress.

I like the second of the other two shots.

Jim


Richard Taylor wrote:
> Yesterday afternoon Philippe Armard set me a set of suggestions as to how 
> to improve my Aldeburgh panorama by lowering contrast and later off-list 
> Douglas Sharp gave me his take on the image.  Doug's take included 
> converting the image to B&W and adding sepia toning.  The new version 
> pretty much follows both ideas with a bit for sky darkening added by using 
> the blue slider, slightly less toning, and the addition of a bit of 
> vignetting.  (Thanks to you both.)  
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/England_2009/sm_-aldebaugh_merge.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/yzwmsad
> 
> Here's another pano, this one from Mistley.  The first is minimally 
> adjusted to emphasize the flat, foggy atmosphere.  The second is more 
> aggressively adjusted, like the new Aldeburh pano, to make it punchier.  
> Preferences? 
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/England_2009/sm_mistley_merge-2.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/yz855da
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/England_2009/sm_mistely+_merge_3.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/yguv2ln
> 
> C&C always welcome.  G-1 w/20mm Panasonic lens and pano processing in 
> PSCS4 and Lightroom.    
>  
> Regards, 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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