Tell me how you mastering your black and white? Film or digital? Photoshop or laboratory? Great shot Ashley!
Hi Norah I’m working with a digital SLR (Pentax K10D) and do most of my conversions with Apple Aperture. It’s quite a lot of fun playing the the tone and mood of an image with different gammas, colour filters and contrast. This one was a photomerge with Adobe CS3 of 3 horizontal “panoramic” shots I took with correction of lens distortion and warping in CS3 followed by some modifications in Aperture (overkill – I could have done it all in CS3, but I like the speed of Aperture and I’m used to working in BnW there). Glad you like it!
Super cool Ashley. This panaramic is seamless. Very well put together. I assume you used the same exposure settings for all the shot to ensure that they all matched…I like the contrast very well controlled.
Thanks Ian – love the Photoshop CS3 “automated photomerge” feature. Very very good. Yeah – I locked the exposure to match exposures for the three captures – haven’t tried to see if different exposures work – knowing CS3, it may actually work…
Brilliant shot Ashley, and a bonus point for shooting with Pentax! ;o) On a more serious note: good job on the post processing, if you hadn’t mentioned it I would assume you used a fish eye.
Thanks Peter – and yes, I really do like my Pentax K10D… (though more than happy to swap you for a Nikon D3 if you have one ;-P)
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Tell me how you mastering your black and white?
Film or digital?
Photoshop or laboratory?
Great shot Ashley!
Hi Norah
I’m working with a digital SLR (Pentax K10D) and do most of my conversions with Apple Aperture. It’s quite a lot of fun playing the the tone and mood of an image with different gammas, colour filters and contrast. This one was a photomerge with Adobe CS3 of 3 horizontal “panoramic” shots I took with correction of lens distortion and warping in CS3 followed by some modifications in Aperture (overkill – I could have done it all in CS3, but I like the speed of Aperture and I’m used to working in BnW there). Glad you like it!
– Ashley Ng
Nice work, I dont like how you cant see EXIF data on this site :)
know what you mean…
– Ashley Ng
Super cool Ashley. This panaramic is seamless. Very well put together. I assume you used the same exposure settings for all the shot to ensure that they all matched…I like the contrast very well controlled.
Thanks Ian – love the Photoshop CS3 “automated photomerge” feature. Very very good. Yeah – I locked the exposure to match exposures for the three captures – haven’t tried to see if different exposures work – knowing CS3, it may actually work…
– Ashley Ng
Utterly superb!
Thanks Erin – glad you liked it (very pleasantly surprised by the overall result myself…)
– Ashley Ng
Great Shot Ashley
Thanks David
– Ashley Ng
brilliant composition,,, love this, well done ashley!
Thanks mate!
– Ashley Ng
Has such a retro feel, again your compostion is excellent.
Thanks Silvia – I’m glad you liked it – and thanks for the kudos!
– Ashley Ng
Brilliant shot Ashley, and a bonus point for shooting with Pentax! ;o)
On a more serious note: good job on the post processing, if you hadn’t mentioned it I would assume you used a fish eye.
Thanks Peter – and yes, I really do like my Pentax K10D…
(though more than happy to swap you for a Nikon D3 if you have one ;-P)
– Ashley Ng
nope, shoot the K10D myself too. :^p
Fantastic! I would have guessed fisheye but read the response about the merging of multiple shots – wow! Well done!