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| Evolution104 |
Mirror Lake InnAn early morning pano of Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid. The inn, and most of the village, are actually on Mirror Lake, not Lake Placid.I'd given this image up as garbage shortly after I took it. Now that I have PhotoShop and Noise Ninja, I'm finding many of my older images are recoverable. This is a 40 second exposure at f22 - 400 ISO. 
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| creators |
Thank goodness for PhotoShop and Noise Ninja, this is absolutely beautiful. | ||||||
| hil26 |
looking at it I find it strange that the hotel reflection is more lit up than the hotel itself.
Overall am not too sure on the image John - I would have preferred a little more detail in the background |
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| Evolution104 |
Couldn't say why - other than noise reduction, a little increase in exposure and saturation, and cropping, this is as shot out of the camera. I've brought out far more detail in the background than I recall when taking the shot. It was dark out. It was still an hour or more before sunrise. |
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| peteski |
Wonderful colours. Glad you could rescue those images. | ||||||
| hil26 |
John, I beleive now that there is more detail in the image than I can actually see,
Have been calibrating my monitor and there is no difference, to me at the end of the black scale. It asks to adjust so that the 2 end squares at the black end of the scale can be distinguished apart, to me they are the same. It seems my eyes are getting old, will have to get them tested again soon. So not only do I have a problem with keiths Stereos (not as great a problem now as I use the viewer), I am going to have problem with dark images. |
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| Evolution104 |
Hi Dave,
After going back and looking at the original, I'm not sure my posted image did much to extract any great detail. Actually, it appears that adding saturation actually darkened the water and enhanced the reflections. What I remember seeing at the time was a very dark view - the lights were visible, as was colour in the sky. But not much else, seeing as it was before 5am. This wasn't a winner of an image to begin with, and all the wishful thinking in the world is not going to change that. A salvage job is still a salvage job, no matter how well done (or not). At least this will make for a little more room on my hard drive when I delete it 
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| Evolution104 |
Thanks Keith. I had hopes for this one. |
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| Evolution104 |
Many thanks Pete. I love the look of long exposure low light images I've seen on the web. This was a first attempt at that. On one hand I'm happy with the result. On the other... well, I guess I need more practice
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| peteski |
Yes, practise more! I'm chuffed with my last attempt at low-light panoramic 
This was taken with a Tripod and Panoramic head, the resulats are well worth the effort put in 
Hopefully we'll see some more of your low-light attempts! |
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| hil26 |
just shows what a pano... head can help to achieve | ||||||
| Gilly |
This is going to sound dumb, I just know it, but......... What makes a tripod head a 'pano' head? 
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| hil26 |
not dumb a pano head puts the nodal point of the camera/lens over its centre of rotation, whereas a normal head sets the nodal point back a bit. Doesn't really show up on long landscape panos, but on images that have a nearby foreground it will show up the discrepencies. Not too sure if that makes sense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_Tripod_Heads |
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| Gilly |
ahhhh gotcha!!! Thanks for the explaination!
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| peteski |
That sums it up. |
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| jonH |
Yeah, extreme parallax from closeup panos can be a pain 
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