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Postby stubbsy on Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:39 pm

Two pics taken at my favourite winery - Tyrrell's in the Hunter Valley last week. The first shot was taken with the Nikkor 28-70 and the second with the 10.5 DX fisheye and 50% defished with DxO Optics Pro.


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This second image looks its best much larger than this. Click the image for a larger version.

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Postby big pix on Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:13 pm

Peter nice shot of one of the red growing areas of Tyrrells.......
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Postby Critter on Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:54 pm

Stubbsy, I really like the colour you get, how much of it is from DxO?
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Postby Underload on Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:02 am

Nice photos mate. Tyrells are quite an underrated winery, in my opinion.
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Postby Yi-P on Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:38 am

Very nice Peter :)

One question tho, can you defish to 50% like you did here in Nikon Capture?
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Postby sheepie on Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:02 am

Hi Peter - nice pics :)

I am somewhat distracted in the first however by the track on the left (I'm easily distracted, as you know ;) ).

Am looking forward to seeing the second one in printed form - as you say, these pano's do not show their true majesty unless they are viewed really big (and most of us don't have the luxury of a massive screen!). I wonder how big you can actually get away with printing it given the processing from DXO - will be an interesting experiment :)
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:09 pm

Thank you all for your comments.

Chris - the colour is a combo of the greater dynamic range of the D2x and my PP. DxO doesn't alter it much. Bear in mind that I also used a Circular Polariser for these which ups the blue in the sky and the white of the clouds

Yip - Nikon Capture allows only 0% or 100% defish. That's why I use DxO - you can defish anywhere between 0% and 100% in 1% increments

Leon - I agonised over cloning that out, but decide to leave it in. Now I'm not so sure
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