Yaletown Set

Here's a set of the Yaletown skyline that I added to my portfolio.

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Very nice.

I like these especially the first and third shots, i personally like this look with architectural shots.
What software did you use?
I think i may be going slightly nuts though, when i first looked i thought the horizon was off, when i looked more carefully it is not, but somehow some of the buildings in 1 and 3 look off upright, maybe just barrel distortion from the 24mm.
The composition in no1 is very strong and i like the deep shadows.

Thank you Rick.

PETERSYMES wrote in post #5486798
I like these especially the first and third shots, i personally like this look with architectural shots.
What software did you use?
I think i may be going slightly nuts though, when i first looked i thought the horizon was off, when i looked more carefully it is not, but somehow some of the buildings in 1 and 3 look off upright, maybe just barrel distortion from the 24mm.
The composition in no1 is very strong and i like the deep shadows.

Thank you Peter. These were processed in PS, and you are correct it is barrel distortion from SD750 @ 5.8mm. If I correct the distortion I lose too much IQ so I corrected for small amounts of keystoning and called it a day. I may do a touch more keystone correction on #3 since it does seem to suffer from too much still.

5.8 Wow, i understand what you mean about quality loss. i have run ito this problem at 24mm. how many exposures did you use? and is the static bird placed on a seperate layer? enough questions...

PETERSYMES wrote in post #5487171
5.8 Wow, i understand what you mean about quality loss. i have run ito this problem at 24mm. how many exposures did you use? and is the static bird placed on a seperate layer? enough questions...

Single exposures on all of them, and the bird was part of the scene. I have one shot with the bird, and one without. The one without the bird looks like I was drinking too many beers, and leaning a lot, so it's in the trash.

LeuceDeuce wrote in post #5487261
Single exposures on all of them, and the bird was part of the scene. I have one shot with the bird, and one without. The one without the bird looks like I was drinking too many beers, and leaning a lot, so it's in the trash.

Singles exposures, now that's interesting, i am clearly on the wrong track.
Care to share the PP technique? i am now intrigued.

Nicely done, LD. I never get to that side of the water so it is good to see what can be done over there. I'd be tempted to clone or crop out the bench in the first, it is my favorite.

All of these have undergone the same kinds of treatment.

Several sets of curves in the LAB and RGB color spaces (LAB for color seperation, RGB for contrast). Both hiraloam and conventional USM for shape and sharpness. Several channel blends to alter luminosity levels of specific areas (brightening the purple flowers blending the blue channel in lighten mode...). Noise reduction on the image as a whole, and on individual channels before blending. When I want to quickly change the brightness/contrast of a localized area without a mask I use Nik Software's Viveza plug-in.

All in all it takes about 15-20 mins before I'm happy with the end result. Even then I'll find something that doesn't look right, and start all over.

TheHoff wrote in post #5487318
Nicely done, LD. I never get to that side of the water so it is good to see what can be done over there. I'd be tempted to clone or crop out the bench in the first, it is my favorite.

Thanks Hoff. Nice catch with the bench, I don't know how I missed it. I'll make it go away

Edit: Bench in the recycle bin.

Appreciate the information, i will have to try it myself.
I orginally thought they were HDR, what advantage do you feel you get with your technique?

PETERSYMES wrote in post #5487428
Appreciate the information, i will have to try it myself.
I orginally thought they were HDR, what advantage do you feel you get with your technique?

I didn't look at it as if my technique had an advantage. I was able to capture the entire scene's dynamic range with a single exposure without clipping highlights or plugging shadows so HDR wasn't required. Any clipped highlights or plugged shadows were by my own doing in post.

Don't take me wrong though, I love HDR images and I've done some of my own when the scene required it. It just wasn't required in this case, even with a P&S.

One advantage I just thought of is that there are moving parts of the scene that you wouldn't be able to capture using HDR without blurring them (The moving boats, the riverboat, the water, clouds, bird, etc...)

LeuceDeuce wrote in post #5487465
One advantage I just thought of is that there are moving parts of the scene that you wouldn't be able to capture using HDR without blurring them (The moving boats, the riverboat, the water, clouds, bird, etc...)

Yep that was the bit i had latched onto..... Thanks for the information i will be looking through my collection to see if i have a suitable candidate to try your technique on, if it is reasonable i will post it for your C&C
will have to christen it the Leuce Deuce Effect

PETERSYMES wrote in post #5487497
Yep that was the bit i had latched onto..... Thanks for the information i will be looking through my collection to see if i have a suitable candidate to try your technique on, if it is reasonable i will post it for your C&C
will have to christen it the Leuce Deuce Effect

LOL

To be honest, I think a big part of the look is that it's from a P&S and not my 40D. I'll have to verify that, but I think the IQ is so much better that I'd have to do more work to get this look. I'm going out again tonight by myself so I'll be taking more with the 40D this time so I'll see if I can reproduce the look from those images.

Beautiful LD! I also had to look twice at the horizon Peter...This will look fabulous in those swanky black frames on your wall