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 by leek on Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:32 pm
One of the highlights of our recent trip to the UK was a flying visit to Stonehenge. I had never been there before despite living and visiting the UK for most of my life. Unfortunately, despite being the middle of summer, the weather was abysmal: early morning, light mist, heavy drizzle. I kept my camera under my coat for most of the visit, but brought it out for some rapid fire shots as we circled around the monument. We were there early morning and managed to keep ahead of the tourist masses to get some decent photos. I would have like to have had a little more space on the sides of the image, but wasn't game to switch my lens in those conditions  Here's one I quite like in colour and BW versions:  
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by Murray Foote on Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:57 pm
They look good. I think I prefer the mono version, it doesn't make the sky look like a little bit of a handicap so much as well. I think also if you crop in from the sides it will be much stronger and not as though it is trying to escape from the frames.
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by surenj on Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:27 am
Prefer the subtle greens of the color version I think. leek wrote:I would have like to have had a little more space on the sides of the image, but wasn't game to switch my lens in those conditions
I hope you are joking because this would have been an easy stitch even if you hand held it...
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by biggerry on Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:55 pm
I am not sure which I prefer, I am leaning towards the colour version since there is some nice moss/damp colours which give a bit more 'feeling' to the image than the BW version. I reckon 3 odd images in a pano stitch woulda fixed that lens issue
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by leek on Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:12 pm
Yeah - I know - I took some others which might be stitchable... I'll give it a go sometime.
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by leek on Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:22 pm
Just to prove I did think about stitching - despite being soaked to the skin, here's an image constructed from 10 separate images which I grabbed just before leaving the site... Stitched in photoshop, then corrected the lens distortion somewhat and applied a slight vignette. 
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by Wink on Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:33 pm
John, do you mind if i post a copy i've had a play with?
I was trying a new technique out today and i think it works quite well with this image.
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by leek on Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:42 pm
Wink wrote:John, do you mind if i post a copy i've had a play with?
I was trying a new technique out today and i think it works quite well with this image.
Go for it... I'll tell you if I don't like it  Just as long as it's not "Tilt-Shift"
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by leek on Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:27 pm
Fair enough Wink... it's an interesting technique, but I'm not sure it suits this image... feel free to let it stay tho...
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by Murray Foote on Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:09 pm
... so maybe there was a call for a raincover for the camera and lens. Op Tech are the cheapest. With a Kata (or perhaps a cheap Chinese copy) there's probably room to change a lens. The best I suspect is Think Tank (though Aqua Tech are the dearest).
One thing that niggles for me a bit about the original colour image is the brightness and colour of the grass, in terms of its psychological impact as against the stones. It might be better a bit darker and a bit greener.
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by stubbsy on Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:08 pm
John
The image is worth persevering with. I'm with Murray on this the grass is too saturated yellow I think.
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