Weekend in Geneva - C&C

gary82

A few random ones from my weekend in Geneva, open for C&C...

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Full Flickr Set can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36224551@N04/sets/72157621061548366/

GhostInTheRuins

Great shots I must say!

First one is definitely my favourite, any chance of posting a larger version?

gary82

Thanks

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

First one is definitely my favourite, any chance of posting a larger version?

Yeap;



That's a blanket of cloud rolling over the mountains which surround the city...

Tallon

Those pictures are ridiculas.... -ly good

Mr E

The first one is great.... I assume it was taken 2 seconds after a flash, and 10 seconds later there was a big mushroom cloud?

trooney

They're all really nice. Maybe a tad overdone with the processing in Nº7. Theres a bit of a halo between the skies and the buildings.

majiktripp

Very nice collection.
What were the processing steps for No.4 (ie. 4 shots into panoramic , then HDR?) , and what software do you use to create the panorama image?

kjt

Sweet photos!!

gary82

Thanks all for the comments!

majiktripp wrote: »

What were the processing steps for No.4 (ie. 4 shots into panoramic , then HDR?) , and what software do you use to create the panorama image?

I've gone mad on my panoramic shots recently!

It's actually 12 portrait shots! That shots covers about a 270degree sweep from the spire of the cathedral. There's no clear view so shots were taken from several different little turret windows on the spire. Because of this I used quite a lot of overlap to try smooth out the changes in position.



The shots were then combined using Microsoft ICE.
After that I cropped it. Here's a pre-crop preview...


I then made two additional copies of the file - upped the exposure in one, reduced it in the other. Then generated a HDR image in Photomatix and played around with the Tone Mapping.

Always feel HDR images come out a bit flat, so upped the contrast a bit on the output then.



It was a rough enough job really - as you can see from the building on the right! Not bothered doing an accurate job on it as it'll never be a great photo of Geneva because the massive 140m geezer in the lake was switched off that day - too windy.

gary82

trooney wrote: »

They're all really nice. Maybe a tad overdone with the processing in Nº7. Theres a bit of a halo between the skies and the buildings.

Yeah I actually saw that when I was doing it but sometimes it's nice just to have an unapologetic dirty HDR! :rolleyes: Especially when the original only barely made the recycle bin cut!

dinneenp

i like 5 and 8 a lot.

kgpixels

no. 4 and 9 are my fav

trishw78

gary82 wrote: »

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Sorry OT but it looks like that dog is wearing his balls around his neck... I've never laughed so much in my life.

Back on topic. I love No. 1