Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's stunning and certainly worth the time it took to process! Tina On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote: > This -- http://www.paulroark.com/JA-254-8-Feb22.jpg -- is a shot I took > the > other day in an area we like to walk the dog off leash. I used the Sony > with it's 35mm FE lens. > > Four shots, all auto-exposure, captured the information. The level and > grid lines in the viewfinder help capturing these types of images. In ACR > I eliminated vignetting. I also used the exposure adjustment to coordinate > the exposures (in part off-setting the fact that I did not switch to total > manual exposure and have all shots be the same. In adjusting the exposure > in ACR, I moved the graph's "humps" into a pattern that decreased slightly > going from the bright right side, where the sun was just outside the frame, > to the left side. Cylindrical stitching in PS CC worked well. The final > is about 6Kx12K pixels. To preserve detail, I actually increased the image > resolustion 200% before stitching, then reducing it back 50% after the > stitch. The PS CC "auto" mode image sizing is great for this purpose. The > stitching takes about 15 minutes on an i7 with 16 gb ram -- just enough > time to get a snack. > > Paul > www.PaulRoark.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com