hugin the new year

[Net Llama!]

On 12/31/2005 07:47 PM, Keith Antoine wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> As I alluded to earlier in the week, I spent Christmas at the Grand 
>> Canyon (in northwestern Arizona).  I also drove alot around northwestern 
>> Arizona soaking up some amazing scenery in and around the grand canyon 
>> area.
>> 
>> Here are all the pictures that I took:
>> http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix
> 
> lonni,
> 
> If I may make a few comment/tips on your photos, which look great but 
> could be made just that much better. Practically all photographers over 
> expose the highlights as this is a common factor with digital cameras.
> In Oz we have a far greater percentage of losses this way due to the 
> veryt harsh lighting conditions, so I suggest that you underexpose each 
> landscape shot by 1/4 to 1/2 a stop which will enhance the sky. Do not 
> worry about the shadows as these will take care of themselves and you 
> can bring them up in GIMP. The main suggestion with the panoramas is 
> that you MUST have identical exposures, so put them into GIMP first and 
> make them all identical in shadow and hightlight detail first, then put 
> tem into panorama stitching. Some panorama programs have 'feathering' so 
> as the joined edges are not so prominent.

Thanks for the tips, but in all honesty, I hate using the GIMP. 
Anything that I try to do with it requires an hour or more of trying to 
figure out where they buried the feature, and then another hour of 
trying to figure out how to use it.  The GIMP is easily one of the least 
intuitive apps I've ever used, and I've seen some truly bad ones.
My camera is almost 5 years old, and doesn't provide any native 
mechanism for adjusting the exposure, its all automated (and apparently 
not very well).  If its not point & shoot, it isn't possible.

> 
> This in no way is a criticism of your photos. One other thing I use to 
> enhance the sky is to use a polaroising filter which darkens down the 
> blue of the sky and whitens the clouds.

I'm not sure if you meant a GIMP filter, or some kind of camera filter, 
but see above for why neither will work for me  :)

> 
> Other than that, the very best for the new year: how many years has it 
> been we have exchanged greetings on this list, amongst other things :) 
> 10 ? 12 years?

perhaps a few months.  happy new year!


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