Hi All,

This is my first attempt at a panorama, well my first attmpt at letting photoshop do it. This ship was visually very large and I was trying to convey this in the images.

All taken with the 18-55 kit lens on the K200D.

The image below is a small two pic example for the forum (its about 4000 pixels wide) but the two links will take you to a 5 pic and 7 pic examples.

Low res 2 pic
[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/Bigship-web_res.jpg[/IMG]

5 pic version

7 pic version

C+Cs please, especially on things I could've / should've done to convery the shear size of this boat as well as any other commemnts

Thanks all
Regards
PaulM

I have been trying to capture the moment a butterfly hatches from its cocoon from when I first saw one last year.

I have 4 cocoons on the bush out side my front door and I check them every morning and evening. so you can imagine my dissappiontment when I go in from work yesterday and saw this

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/butterfly-born.jpg[/IMG]

1 down 3 to go, Its supposed to have a 7 day gestaion period I noticed them last saturday and its a long weekend for easter, maybe I will get lucky

For information on what it is see Here

Good constructive comments Jo well judged.

Congratualtions to i-Berg for the win and Dr Mhuni and aliengrove for the joint second.

Looking forward to i-Bergs' subject now

Regards
PaulM

Hi Clarky

Yes its a working mine in WA a couple of hours north of the Kalgoorlie / Boulder Superpit. I dont know the name of it yet as my flights etc havent been booked. (I am going for my Company to get some installed product shots)

I think it is a gold mine though not 100%

Regards
PaulM

Thanks Polchraine

Not sure whats mined I just know its a Hard Rock mine and not a coal one.
Apparently there is some lighting but not in all of the areas and I will be shooting in raw so I can correct them in post processing.

Regards
PaulM

Thanks guys,

Do you mean like this or crop the cab out completely and just leave the boom in?

[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/crane-3crop.jpg[/IMG]

Regards
PaulM

Hi Gareth,

I did mine in photoshop CS3 and below is the steps I used.
My dirty sratchy layer was a picture of an old cast concrete wall with marks, scratches and imperfections that I liked the look of.

In photoshop it goes some thing like this

1) Image>Adjust>Black and White and move the sliders around until you like the look

2)Filter>Distort>Lens Correction and use the vignette and midpoint slider until you get something that you like the look of

3) Image>Adjust>Photo Filter and pick the sepia tone and again set the strength to something you like the look of.

4) create a new layer at the top (either by Layer>New Layer or the new layer Icon in the bottom pf the layers pallet)

5) Open up the texture you want to use in a new window and then select it all and copy it (Ctrl A for select all and Ctrl C for copy) then switch back to your main image and paste (Ctrl V) it in to the new top layer you created in step 4

6) Now you need to change the blend mode of your new texture layer. There is a box directly below the the tab for the layers pallet and in it is usually the word 'Normal' change this to one you like the look of. I normally use either 'Screen', 'Multiply' or 'Overlay'

7) As a final thing you can adjust the opacity of this top layer to increase and decrease the strength of the effect until you get some thing you like the look of.

Dont forget to preserve the orignal image by either saving the image under a different file name working on a duplicate layer (Layer>Duplicate layer) of the image and hiding the original or by doing each of the above on seperate adjustment layers (Layers>New Adjustment Layer)

I apologise if the above is too basic but I was trying to keep it as simple as possible

Hope this helps

Regards
PaulM

Hi Mike,

I was including it to try and add a sense of size / scale.

Does it ont work and does it detract form the pic?

Regards
PaulM

OK,

I said to andrew I fancied tweaking a couple of these shots and heres the result

Firstly twaeked to reduce the brightness of the prefab / corrigated steal building
[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/bigtrainburnt.jpg[/IMG]

Secondly 'waiting for the road' (in my opinion) was crying out for a nostalgic tweak to look olde world
[IMG]http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb113/pnjmcc/trainmanolde.jpg[/IMG]

I hope you like them
Regards
PaulM

Looks like you got a good lens there Kris, doesn't look like there are any blemishes visible in the pictures (unless you cloned them out)

you 'test' pictures are better than some of my attempts at a serious capture ! I especially like No.6

Regards
PaulM