Eye of the Setting Sun:Reprocessed
I need a big canvas print of this so I had to reprocess the whole thing.
Firstly, I merged the 6 shots 2 photos at a time, which resulted in flawless merging of the clouds and ‘better’ merging of the waves. After that I still spent about 20 minutes on the waves. You can only see merging traces at 100% zoom on the 70003600 resolution, on the previous one there was merging mistakes everywhere, visible at full view on the 1200700 resolution…so big improvement there.
Huge improvement on shadows and highlights too. There’s barely a blown-out highlight or black shadow, where as the previous one had a lot of both.
Colour and contrast: This version has much less contrast and it has true colour. All I did was increase the black of yellows and reds with selective colour. minor levels adjustments( too much blows out highlights and blackens the shadows).
So overall, a much more natural look. And much more pleasing to look at. I think I’m probably gonna lose fav’s with this version because the colours are less interesting. But I’ll gain fav’s from the people who appreciate a properly exposed and processed nature photo?
Strand,Western Cape, South Africa
Canon 18-55mm @ 18mm
6 vertical shots [][][][][][]
Processing done in CS3
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Eye of the Setting Sun:Reprocessed belongs to the following groups:
South Africa - Rainbow Nation
Nikki Trexel
this is incredible. i unfortunately missed the first version, but sounds like this one is even better. amazing work, and i like the people standing on the left. really humanizes it, yet makes me feel very small. it does look like an eye. awesomeness.
mindboggle
wow this is fantastic
cdwork
I’m with Nikki- beautiful view and well worth the time
ferndesign
wow stunning awesome
mlgkats
this well done
nodrogart
This is truly an amazing Image, IF I am honest I would prefer it with a white border and more border at the top. I have to look at this more before I can comment further, but it is AMAZING
Cathy Middleton
Great work, wow, this one is even better than the last one! Absolutely fantastic.
Trenton Purdy
WOW. speechless
Benjamin Scheurer
Brilliant…perfect reflections!
Dani Dreyer
Super, super stunning image. You did a brilliant job here.
Mary Lake
What a wonderfully stunning image. Well done in your work!!! :-)
Brian Puhl IPA
I don’t know what you’re talking about—- this one looks ten times better! I can’t tell the stiching errors in the original, however the colors are natural and more realistic in this one. A job very well done!
Deon de Waal
This is quite awesome…....
storm22
very well done!!
naturelover
Stunning photography!
Stephen Maxwell
Outstanding.
aroha
awesome! i love the people in this, they make the sky seem even bigger… love the reflections too
Matt Halls
Excellent work…end result is magnificent!
Carisma
Please add place/town, province
XXX
Matt Lauder
This is great…. a natural looking shot like this beats something that looks worked. So well done.
Hedniskhjartad
Oooeeeee, found you on dA some time ago and now here.
Aimelle
ohh the natural framing looks like an eye ! so I like the feeling of intimacy I get from this. a blink in heaven !
Shaun Whiteman
trueky amzing shot, fantastic colours!
Fiona Christensen
This is so breathtaking!!! Cape Town is just too beautiful! wow!
Dharna
STUNNING!!! Thanks for the information as well. I will try merging two images at a time to see if I get a better result.