[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 8:56 pm

thanks everyone!

rob and martin: i totally agree.. the pathway was a zigzag down to the lake, i noticed this scene on the way up and kept stopping at every “level” in this spot to see if i could get the tree tops below the mountain.. unfortunately, this was taken on the parking lot level, i couldn’t go up any higher..

luc:
tetons is a french word that means breasts.. i think the french trappers that originally mapped out the area for the fur trade were a little lonely without their female companions. :wink: there are 3 main peaks within the teons, wishful thinking on their part..

beth

[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 8:54 pm

Martin wrote:

neilmcshane: Check out a site called http://www.lifepixel.com .I used these guys they are based in the US. I just bought the filter from them and opened the camera myself and put in the Filter. Beth on this site used these guys also and she sent in the camera to them to be converted, I think she was happy with the service also. Hope you get it converted Neil. Really brings out the mood in a picture and is excellent for recording clouds you get allot more details in them

i sent them my camera, they received the camera and had it converted and shipped out the next day.. great service, can’t give lifepixel enough praise for their work.
beth

[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 8:52 pm

i like the original the best..
very good work, nice color and comp.
beth

[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 3:18 pm

griangraf wrote:

Does anyone know how I could ‘uncurve the earth’ in this shot. MJ

that can be done right in ptgui, although i think you need to purchase it first to use the feature if you haven’t already.. i’m not sure how familiar with pano software you are so if you feel like i’m telling you things you already know then my apologies.
upon opening the program you have three buttons, 1.load images, 2. align images and 3. create pano.
click on the first button to load your pics as normal.
then click on align images to get them all together. take a look at the popup, if they’re not lining up properly you’ll have to click on the “control point” tab at the top and put in control points manually, then bring up the two images that aren’t aligning properly (pick the number at the tab on top of the two screens, make sure you put a different image in each side of the screen) and place a control point in each image where they match up, ie, a mountain peak, metal obj. sticking out of the ground, easily spotted point on a tree, etc… normally you need 5 control points matching things between the two images.
you need to go back to the first screen when you’re done, then click on align pano, it will go behind you and nudge all the images into place. it will also make a few corrections.
click on align images, and then you can move the pano around within the space to get the horizon straight.. you can also move whole photos around within the pano (once i had a photo that it couldn’t place so it stuck it in the middle, i moved it to the proper spot and added a few control points.) in this popup view you could try to use the “straighten the pano” button which is the one thats a line with arrows above and below it.
if that doesn’t work, click on the “panorama edit view,” the icon that looks like a pyramid of 3 pictures, left click on the middle of the horizon and drag it to the intersecting lines in the middle of the image, then right click on the different sections of the horizon and drag them to the horizon line..
close the popup, go back to the main screen and click on “create pano”…
beth

[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 2:55 pm

great tones and comp., details seem a little soft to me..
beth

[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 2:54 pm

very nice.. i love the colors and the comp., detail is superb.
beth

[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 2:51 pm

i also like the color version, i usually like the b&w version better, but the tones, while not quite flat, still seem to blend together too much..
beth

[beth]

August 28, 2007 at 2:46 pm

i couldn’t justify the is version for my occasional bird shots, but if i was thinking about doing a wedding, then yes, i’d probably have gotten the is version. its a great lens, my best advice would be to think about how you plan on using it.
beth

[beth]

August 27, 2007 at 8:54 pm

beautiful.. love the post processing..
beth

[beth]

August 27, 2007 at 7:50 pm

wow, nice work. love it.
beth

[beth]

August 27, 2007 at 7:50 pm

thanks everyone

expresbro – don’t have to be rich (although i’m sure it would help..), i picked up a discontinued body pretty cheap and had it converted. all in all less than $1k usd, probably could have done it cheaper if i had gotten a digital rebel, but i owned one of them and had horrible problems with banding.

shar – good to see you too, i’ll shoot you a msg as soon as i get the new im program setup on the desktop.
beth

[beth]

August 27, 2007 at 7:45 pm

great work shar. love the comp., can’t wait to see more seascapes from you, bit of a change from your normal landscape variety in colorado.
beth

[beth]

August 27, 2007 at 7:37 pm

i too prefer the second. what draws me to this one is the branches overhanging and framing the water which draws my eye right to the water. in the first there are too many other things to look at, the weeping willow branches going into the water, the pathway, etc.. love the post processing.
beth

[beth]

August 27, 2007 at 8:18 am

great capture, i love the lighting, the stones don’t seem too dark for me.. beautiful comp.
beth

[beth]

August 27, 2007 at 2:28 am

sorry, but i think the images would stand better without the color casts. amazing tones and comp..
beth