cameraf4 wrote:
I love the Schoodic Peninsula. Just don't get up that way often enough. Great sunrise shot with just a touch of lens flare. I might have stopped down a touch.
The source frames were underexposed a little bit already and opening the shadows up brought out the details of the rocks. My final touch was to increase the black level with the Gamma slider in the Exposure menu in Photoshop. Also for those viewing it on an uncalibrated monitor, it will look a little light and washed-out. My Ultrasharp editing monitor is calibrated to Adobe RGB color space and my utility monitor is sRGB; both Dells. And there is a noticeable difference. As I prepare to take the series of images to make the pano, I take a meter reading on the darkest part of the scene and set the camera to that reading in Manual exposure usually in Matrix metering so each capture is identical in exposure and I don't get some annoying gradiants between frames. It was a balancing act trying to get some details to reveal themselves in the trees and to not cause that sun halo/flare to bloom too much. The real work is in post.