Morant's Curve (PL): What a great section to have! Really enjoying it...thank you! I also like the critiquing when included. I took this photo, hand held, about 4 images. I processed...

Pixelpixie88 Loc: Northern Minnesota

What a great section to have! Really enjoying it...thank you! I also like the critiquing when included.
I took this photo, hand held, about 4 images. I processed it in LR and also merged in LR. I don't have much experience with panoramas (a couple is all) but when I look at this photo, I always wonder if it is the way it should look. I guess because it's curved so much? Other than that, I do wish I had more "ground" below the tracks.
Thanks for looking,
Marsha

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Nice shot!

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Can you post the location (state, county/city so that I can list it?

Thank you.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

Pixelpixie88 wrote:

What a great section to have! Really enjoying it...thank you! I also like the critiquing when included.
I took this photo, hand held, about 4 images. I processed it in LR and also merged in LR. I don't have much experience with panoramas (a couple is all) but when I look at this photo, I always wonder if it is the way it should look. I guess because it's curved so much? Other than that, I do wish I had more "ground" below the tracks.
Thanks for looking,
Marsha

Nice image, makes me want to leave home and travel.

If you try the same image in Microsoft's "ICE", it gives more options and you could find one that will be more pleasing to you. You can take it further with the transform tools in Photoshop which can sometimes work wonders

Pixelpixie88 Loc: Northern Minnesota

Pixelpixie88 wrote:

What a great section to have! Really enjoying it...thank you! I also like the critiquing when included.
I took this photo, hand held, about 4 images. I processed it in LR and also merged in LR. I don't have much experience with panoramas (a couple is all) but when I look at this photo, I always wonder if it is the way it should look. I guess because it's curved so much? Other than that, I do wish I had more "ground" below the tracks.
Thanks for looking,
Marsha

This is Morant's Curve along he Icefields Parkway in Alberta. Closer to Banff than Jasper. We were lucky...the train did come around the bend!

Pixelpixie88 Loc: Northern Minnesota

Rich1939 wrote:

Nice image, makes me want to leave home and travel.

If you try the same image in Microsoft's "ICE", it gives more options and you could find one that will be more pleasing to you. You can take it further with the transform tools in Photoshop which can sometimes work wonders

Thanks Rich, I guess I did know about that in Photoshop. I'll have to give it a try. :-)

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Pixelpixie88 wrote:

This is Morant's Curve along he Icefields Parkway in Alberta. Closer to Banff than Jasper. We were lucky...the train did come around the bend!

Thank you.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Pixelpixie88 wrote:

Thanks Rich, I guess I did know about that in Photoshop. I'll have to give it a try. :-)

Actually it will be hard to correct as is.

With PS CC/ACR when you create a panorama you can select not to crop when importing onto PS CC.
Then using the (edit - transform - warp tool) you can adjust some of the issue you are concerned about.
This is what I used on this thread.
Experiment with this and have fun.

Pixelpixie88 Loc: Northern Minnesota

Rongnongno wrote:

Actually it will be hard to correct as is.

With PS CC/ACR when you create a panorama you can select not to crop when importing onto PS CC.
Then using the (edit - transform - warp tool) you can adjust some of the issue you are concerned about.
This is what I used on this thread.
Experiment with this and have fun.

Thanks...I'll try to remember that. Maybe a "redo" in PS!

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Pixelpixie88 wrote:

Thanks Rich, I guess I did know about that in Photoshop. I'll have to give it a try. :-)

Do you have Lightroom? Open the image in the Develop module, and apply a Lens correction for whatever you used to take the image. Lightroom will automatically correct image distortion and straighten the image. The you can crop to suit.

You can do the same in Microsoft ICE, but it is a rather blunt instrument for panoramas, Lightroom is more like a surgical scalpel. ICE's only benefit is that it is free.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

Seems like the more pano 'apps' you have the better. Sometimes one app will reject your images while another will accept them. Sometimes one app will not get it right when another will.

Pixelpixie88 Loc: Northern Minnesota

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Do you have Lightroom? Open the image in the Develop module, and apply a Lens correction for whatever you used to take the image. Lightroom will automatically correct image distortion and straighten the image. The you can crop to suit.

You can do the same in Microsoft ICE, but it is a rather blunt instrument for panoramas, Lightroom is more like a surgical scalpel. ICE's only benefit is that it is free.

I do have LR...couldn't live without it! ;-) I just did what you suggested. It did do a little straightening...I think there must be a natural curve in the landscape. I just googled Morant's Curve landscape photos and looking at that, I think that my photo is ok. Good tip to know abut the Lens correction!
Thanks for your help!

LarryFitz Loc: Beacon NY

Good photograph

Robert Bailey Loc: Canada

Please clarify for me-
Do the road, train tracks and river actually have a curve in them
or is the curve created by the process of stitching the panoramic together
particularly since it was hand-held?

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

The curve is basically how the eye sees - things seen in peripheral vision are further away than seen in center vision - the camera captures this.