Natural Bridge state park

I just got my new 27"imac I7 processor. With all this new power, making panoramics are so quick and fun. What do you think about these?

If i wanted to print these, where is the best place to do this? does mpix or any of those place do panoramic prints?

editing them down..... For some reason, i can't get the colors to look the way i want on the pic with more trees in foreground. driving me nuts. I try and bump up the blacks a smidgen, contrast some. saturation a little, just doesn't look right. can't get the right combination. What do you all think?

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Your watermark is entirely too obtrusive.

+1. Lower the opacity and size. Could be some good shots.

+2. The only thing my attention gets focused to is the water mark. Reduce the size and opacity and move it off center. You want people to enjoy the scenery!
With that being said, The colors look pretty good. Perhaps a compromise of both. Don't mess with the saturation so much, instead tweak the vibrance maybe.

Are you making adjustments on the background layer via Image/Adjustments. Or are you using adjustment layers?
Use adjustment layers, and if you feel you bumped it up to much adjust the Opacity or fill until you get the look you are after.
Just my 2 cents!. Might even be worth it.

plasticmotif wrote in post #11240623
Your watermark is entirely too obtrusive.

totally agree...

tkerr wrote in post #11240790
+2. The only thing my attention gets focused to is the water mark. Reduce the size and opacity and move it off center. You want people to enjoy the scenery!
With that being said, The colors look pretty good. Perhaps a compromise of both. Don't mess with the saturation so much, instead tweak the vibrance maybe.

Are you making adjustments on the background layer via Image/Adjustments. Or are you using adjustment layers?
Use adjustment layers, and if you feel you bumped it up to much adjust the Opacity or fill until you get the look you are after.
Just my 2 cents!. Might even be worth it.

Sorry about the watermark. I was playing around in lightroom with the watermark stuff. Didn't view it before i sent it here. I acutally did all the edits in lightroom. I was thinking of doing it in photoshop. Just playing around with lightroom settings. It is easier in there. I am goign to fire up photoshop and try in there.

Here they are. Not sure how to delete the originals?

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bphillips330 wrote in post #11242705
Here they are. Not sure how to delete the originals?

I'm definitely no expert, but to my slightly more than untrained eye, I like the top one. The lighting and colors pop more for me.

Just curious, which day were these taken? I was just there on 10/24 and it was not nearly as picturesque. The colors were very muted that day.

we were there the weekend of the 15th. The weekend before you were there. We live in cincinnati and this place is great. This is the first time we have gone here with our camper and the kids. We are going to definetly go back!

That's much better, now we can enjoy the panoramic scenery.

I like the top one also, the colors are more vibrant whereas the bottom one looks too flat to me.