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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 1/10/2007
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Thanks Andre, so far I'm a local tourist :)
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/9/2007
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Hi Ina,
You are capturing the spirit of Toronto the "clean and good" Keep it up!
Andre
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 1/9/2007
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Sam, a very thorough response, I thank you for taking so much time and writing it all down! I'll have to retrace your steps, and apply what you've done. I think you did a super good job, given the small jpeg sample you had - I have this thing and others in RAW. This helps me tremendously, because basically every night shot I'd take on the streets would have these hot spots, and IMHO they make the picture(s) unuseable, until now, that is :) Thanks again, Ina
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Sam Graziano III
{K:14064} 1/8/2007
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Ok my Friend,
Prepare for a long winded responce.
First thing you can do is,
Open in CS2
Hit Ctrl+J to duplicate your image
then go to Image/adjustments/Shadow & Highlights
Set the shadows to 0
Then you can adjust your highlights until you are happy with the white balance.
Or you can do what I did.
After duping the image.
I used the Magic wand tool and selected the area that was to bright. with that area selected I clicked on the Add New Fill or adjustment layer( the circle that looks like a goofy Yen and yang symbol.
when you click that a drop down/up will pop up....select brightness/contrast
I set the brightness to -40 then hit OK
then I set the opacity to 63% on the new Layer.
That will give you a nice Lower hotspot in the center of the light.
Next thing I did was. with the dup layer selected.
I held down Ctrl and hit the letter A that will put a selection around all of your image.
then Hold down Ctrl and hit the Letter T.
That will give you the Transform tool.
Right click in the center of the shot and select perspective.
From either the top left or top right corner you can click and drag the image out until the left buildings and the center are in the right perspective. I drug it out about 1 inch and moved the center area over the the right about 1/8th of an inch.
The next step is...hold down Ctrl and hit the letter D to de-select the image.
Flatten your shot then Hit Ctrl J again to duplicate it once again.
then go Filter/sharpen/Smart Sharpen
Set it to 85% Threshold of 1 and Gaussian blur
Then hit OK.
finally flatten your image resize and post.
Hope this helps my Friend.
Don't hesitate to ever ask me for any tips or suggestion.
My Very Best Regards
Sam Graziano III
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 1/8/2007
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Thank you so much Sam for taking the time to correct the image, it's great! I got a new lens - Sigma 10-20mm and although it catches a lot of real estate - it also distorts perspective. I will remember the steps for my next panoramics, it helps tremendously to be able to straighten out the perspective.
I could also use your PS expertise - if I may - for removing some bright spots (mainly the street light) from this type of night shot. Any ideas? Thanks indeed :)Ina
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Sam Graziano III
{K:14064} 1/8/2007
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Hi Ina, I Love the shot. The size of those buildings must be a sight to see in person.
A simple technique can be used to remove the building to the right and straighten out the perspective of the buildings without losing any quaility.
here is an example of what I mean. I Hope you don't mind.
What I did was as follows.
Duplicate the image.
Select filter/distort/Lens correction
Adjust the Verticle perspective,
Adjust the Scale of the shot.
The Cloud on the upper left can be retained by simply erasing the upper left edge and flatten and post.
I hope this helps a bit. If you ever need any tips or help with photoshop. Please don't hesitate to ask.
My best regards
Sam III
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 1/8/2007
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Hi Paolo - the view from the CN Tower is 360 degrees, on a sunny day it's great. It's quite an experience going up too, the elevators travel on the outside :)
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Paolo Corradini
{K:59552} 1/8/2007
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wow great tower i love this structure i can only imagine what panoramic view from the top.
great liche and colors again!
cheers
Poalo
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Mehul Chimthankar
{K:18655} 1/8/2007
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Hi Ina,
This is fantastic, great sky, contrast and crop
Well done
Mehul
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jacques brisebois
{K:73883} 1/7/2007
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many great architecture captures since your moving pic Ina, love the composition and details in this one.
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 1/7/2007
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Impactantes edificios y bello cielo... felicitaciones Ina una excelente imagen!
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 1/6/2007
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Hi Petal & thanks :) Normally it would be an easy thing to crop, but it looks weird when you do this, the right side building has too much of a slant, and it seems to fall in. Also, check this other attached view, it's an odd lens distortion.
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Petal Wijnen
{K:50989} 1/6/2007
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Nice shot!! Wonderful colors and clarity, good composition... well done!! The only thing I would change is the building sticking in on the right... cut it off, that way the tower still is the center of attention, but no longer in the center which makes the composition a bit stronger with that great diagonal line leading up to it... well that's MHO!!
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 1/6/2007
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Excellent composition, Ina, and great colours in the sky and buildings!
Dave.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 1/6/2007
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Thanks Winfried, I should go back and take some more pictures. I was a bit rushed because I parked in a "no parking" zone (ha-ha, again on private property), with an eye on the car. But most of the city is restricted parking, and they do hand out tickets:)
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Gennaro Manna
{K:21301} 1/6/2007
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beautiful architcture image, congrats
gennaro
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Gorilla K
{K:17526} 1/6/2007
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great architecture photo with impressive effect...first-class perspective, more nicely blue sky!!!
nicely seen, dear ina!
ps:cut off maybe still on the right the building!
lg,
winfried
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Mohsen Bayramnejad
{K:21377} 1/6/2007
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A very simple and hearty image...with lovely color tones. beautiful!
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