Boscombe Pier

[Stan]

This is a re work of a shot from about 18 months ago, taken during the last of the evening light. I wanted to turn it into a wide angle panoramic view so as well as cropping i have "stretched" the shot horizontally
WDYT

Stan

[MX5]

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Very effective, the dark foreboding sky just adds to the effect. Very nice indeed. Also like the symmetry

[mammarazzi]

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Great shot Stan, the lamps look good lit and the sky is such a feature. It looks like it goes on for miles.

Joanne

[Fr1so]

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Great shot. What a depth in the picture. Are those colours for real, of did you do something with it?

[Stan]

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Thanks MX5, Joanne and Fr1so

Are those colours for real, of did you do something with it?

the colours are quite accurate. I did apply a slight warmth to the raw file in ACR before opening in photoshop and then a seperate levels layer for the sky and the foreground. In each case I tweaked the red, blue and green channels seperatly, moving the left and right sliders towards the centre until just before the shadow/highlight warnings appeared and then in RGB moved the centre slider to the left to improve the contrast

Stan

[Chris J]

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Ace!
Cheers, Chris.

[Colin]

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Very nice Stan, lovely sense of perspective and the people on the rhs are good to have in too. Did you try a slightly offset stretch too (more on one side than the other)? I wonder what that would look like?

[vdzande]

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Amazing!

[Stan]

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Thanks Guys

Did you try a slightly offset stretch too (more on one side than the other)?

I think left and right have to be equal, almost like a mirror image and would not look right de centralised.
I have tried your suggestion but bevause of the way i am stretching it it does not matter if you pull one side more than the other, everything still stretches in equal proportions

Stan

[DeeGee]

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WOW. Very nice...

Can I ask, did you do it in b&w as well? Not that theres anything wrong with the colour, just with all the tones, I wondered what it would look like.


Deleted previous post as for some reason, managed to post twice.

[Stan]

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Thanks Di

Can I ask, did you do it in b&w as well? Not that theres anything wrong with the colour, just with all the tones, I wondered what it would look like.

Wonder no more - I think it does convert well to mono although i still prefer the colour version with its limited colour pallate

Stan

[George Bear]

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Still nice in B&W. One wonders what FP4 would have made of it in ye olde days of film and MF cameras ...

[djguk47]

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B&W looks good but the colour version gets my vote.
One of these days I will get the hang of PS and get to produce an image like this.

David

[Stan]

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Thanks George and David

One of these days I will get the hang of PS and get to produce an image like this.

It was quite straightforward and the only different processing to what i normally do was the two levels layers, one for the sky and the other for the foreground - a tip i picked up on another forum

Stan

[DeeGee]

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Thanks for doing the b&w.

It does convert well...

I could easily see this, printed onto a big canvas over a sofa. Black and white for the Minimalistic and in colour for the people who want colour in their life