Goodbye Bristol

[Devrij]

With my upcoming move to Yorkshire I thought I'd get in a shot of the ever-popular Clifton Suspension Bridge (shot so many times the valley echoes with shutter clicks ), and I took it as an opportunity to shoot my first ever pano shot. So without further ado

and the remix!

I'm not 100% happy with either tbh and keep flip-flopping between which one I like better. I think I might print one as a memento so any ideas as to how it could be improved or which one you prefer would be great

 

[Devrij]

Looks like the sun is to the right, locking WB and exposure is something I always forget to do on a panorama. I've had some right dodgy results!

Ah, now that's probably what went wrong. I had noticed the seam between the two and was wondering how it got there. So basically when I rotated the camera away from the sun it was recalculating the exposure. *sigh* Well at least I took something I had more experience with on the way out.

 

[Devrij]

I want to like this, but the details in the shadows have been brightened too much, almost to HDR proportions. It makes it feel unnatural.

It is HDR, and I actually dislike the trees as well. I'm not entirely sure what to do with them as they make up a large portion of the shot, and I dislike the purple colour they have. I would've preferred green trees, but hey ho. I did try burning them a bit to get rid of the spider-web look, but could't get it to look right.

I can see a longer exposure was used, but did you use a ND filter at all?

Nope, no filters to use yet, just used HDR to bring detail from shadows back without blowing out the sunset. It was already quite dark at that stage.

Cheers for the feedback guys