To me, there are two major reasons to take a photo, one is to capture
beautiful objects and the other is to capture the moment, place or people
that pass by me. In the second case I will try to retain the "look" that
capture in my memory. Actually, the shoot was taken in early morning
(6:41am) and I didn't want to make big change to the original look.
I'm not experience in scenic but your adjustment doesn't look natural to me
no matter it is morning or evening scene like this one:
http://www.accura.com.hk/PC.jpg
BTW, I think you should have a look on the checking target just like the
grey bar in this page:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse300/
I know you have a good calibration tool but sometimes things just get
overlooked. On my monitor I can identify all the grey blocks with the last
two (darkest two) just identifiable, to me my original merge just look fine:
http://www.accura.com.hk/PB-Mer.jpg
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Were you thinking something like this
> <http://moosemystic.net/Gallery/PB-Meraj1.jpg>.
>
> Or how about a soft, morning light look
> <http://moosemystic.net/Gallery/PB-Meraj2.jpg>? :-) Of course, when
> you go this far, the line where tower is separated from sky becomes too
> obvious, but that wouldn't be a problem working with a full size, 16 bit
> image. There are also some logical visual inconsistencies. The sky could
> almost pass for early, rather than late, assuming the lighter clouds are
> iluminated by the sun coming up, and the darker ones still in shadow.
> That could also account for the very soft, even light on the building.
> But the iron railings shillouetted against the sky, rather than lit from
> the front surely aren't right. But they look so much better that way!
> The get all blah if adjusted along with the building.
>
> Be sure to view at 100%. They won't stand up to the extra artifacts from
> being viewed at a reduced size on screen very well.
>
> Moose
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