End of the Day

One from today:

sns-hdr, pano merge by photoshop, final edits in photoshop

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/wolf911/6826730​215/

Very nice. I want that truck!!

Thanks, actually the guy that owns the truck passed away, but the son might fix it up. Some idiots shot the back window all up on it tho.

Kool !! Nice !

Great shot, great processing. Two standouts - the snow looks perfect, with the slightest tinge of coolness in the shadows, just like it should be. I also really love the crop, I think the wideness gives it an almost cinema look. I really wish there was a series of shots, almost like a pan shot into the sunset in the left.

Thanks, the left is all thick trees so no sunset available.

great shot! my only nit is the tire tracks in the foreground.

I like the image a lot, but something about the leveling / horizon makes me queasy.

Looks like the verticals on the building are plumb, but the horizon line across the yard is sharply tilted. The trees seem to be perpendicular to that line, so is it maybe the case that the barn is tilting and getting ready to fall over and the true flat horizon line is the one running from the truck's rear bumper over to the edge of the barn?

I tried to ask the same question in the "Cinematic Colors" thread in the Post Processing part of the forum:

Why the letterbox black bars?

The answer I got over in the other thread was "It make it look cinematic."

Actually, it makes it look like a movie converted to DVD for viewing on a television, which is the motivation of letterboxing, due to different aspect ratios. I think the wide, panavision-like aspect ratio makes the image have a cinematic look.

I like the image, I like the tire tracks, I just think that the letterbox borders detract from the image and I see no reason to use them. It is your image, and if you like the look, cool. Just my opinion.

kirk

I like the shot too. The image itself doesn't look like a 16:9 ratio so even on a hi def wide screen tv, there would be black bars at the top and bottom. Whether the bars in this image adds to it or not is subjective and personally, it doesn't bother me either way.

michaelnel wrote in post #13834447
I like the image a lot, but something about the leveling / horizon makes me queasy.

Looks like the verticals on the building are plumb, but the horizon line across the yard is sharply tilted. The trees seem to be perpendicular to that line, so is it maybe the case that the barn is tilting and getting ready to fall over and the true flat horizon line is the one running from the truck's rear bumper over to the edge of the barn?

There really isn't anything straight in the picture, the entire yard is rolling in every direction. I just decided to go with the barn and go with it.

kirkt wrote in post #13835268
I tried to ask the same question in the "Cinematic Colors" thread in the Post Processing part of the forum:

Why the letterbox black bars?

The answer I got over in the other thread was "It make it look cinematic."

Actually, it makes it look like a movie converted to DVD for viewing on a television, which is the motivation of letterboxing, due to different aspect ratios. I think the wide, panavision-like aspect ratio makes the image have a cinematic look.

I like the image, I like the tire tracks, I just think that the letterbox borders detract from the image and I see no reason to use them. It is your image, and if you like the look, cool. Just my opinion.

kirk

Well, it's a pano and than it's cropped to 6x4 and in order to achieve that, one gets extra background so I just split the difference, nothing really technical about it. Sometimes I will recrop so just a narrow top and bottom exists. I usually always have a top and bottom of some sort for pics that go to internet, original crop are kept.

navydoc wrote in post #13835671
I like the shot too. The image itself doesn't look like a 16:9 ratio so even on a hi def wide screen tv, there would be black bars at the top and bottom. Whether the bars in this image adds to it or not is subjective and personally, it doesn't bother me either way.

Thanks, and again the bars are just something I do for pics I upload

tewlman wrote in post #13834160
great shot! my only nit is the tire tracks in the foreground.

Thanks and yea they kinda bugged me too, but I got use to em.