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Originally Posted by Jacco
After's rendition is excellent. And it made me notice what I consider the most interesting thing in this pano: the mountains that are still very subtly lit by the very last rays of the sun. Nice!
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Actually, this was taken after midnight. It's the lights of the city lighting up the snow on the mountains over 30 sec.
It is a nice touch, but kind of a mixed blessing - DXO tweaked levels so that detail is pulled out. Bloody noisy though - the "large" here is 33% of the source image and noise is a bit annoying at 1/3rd the res
It also introduced some artifacts that are annoying - for example, the extreme left of the image has a cluster of trees. You'll see "square blocks" of "not quite pure black" - these defects are also in other parts of the image, but are extremely obvious there.
I think I'm going to put this one down for a bit... Have a few other more simple panos I'd like to get out (my "done but photoshop needed" folder is ~75gb at this point) Some of the daylight stuff is much easier and only needs a simple crop. Here I'll be dicking around with lens flares and those damn blocks. I'd like to use HDR on an image like this, but none of my HDR attempts have turned out to be worth a damn.
The last few weeks have been crazy - trips to the mountains around here, Seattle. Portland, Columbia River / Gorge, Oregon Coast, Banff / Lake Louise, Rocky Mountains and then a week or so of camping 'round here and now finally unpacking / sorting.
*whew*
