Let’s play #36

[Ben Egbert]

See the let’s play guidelines above.

You have been having it easy lately, here is a challenge. Dark and badly skewed from pointing upward. See what you can do with it.

Here is a link to the image.

https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?resources/lets-play-36.55/

The embedded image is a small jpg of the raw, but use the download dng files for rework.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Ok here is my attempt. It was easy to fix the darkness, but I only corrected the geometry part way because further correction distorted the mountain too much.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is my attempt.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I like the color you got. You were there when I shot this. I will be looking for your version at landscape

 

[Jameel Hyder]

I like the color you got. You were there when I shot this. I will be looking for your version at landscape

Haven't processed that yet. Hopefully soon.

 

[AlanLichty]

Another hack from my side:

 

[Ben Egbert]

I like your clouds. I see so far my destortion control is about as far as it goes

 

[AlanLichty]

Here is the same image with a ton of vertical transformation applied. It has the same processing as the first one I submitted other than the vertical transformation in Lightroom. This is as far as you can go before you cut off the top of the foreground mountain.

My problem with this version is that it was originally framed as a landscape shot while the desired subject is better suited for a portrait orientation. The bottom feels cut off given what we have to crop with the vertical transformation. The original framing you did in camera and I submitted in the first image feels more natural to my eye as a composition. Please leave my first image as my entry.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Alan I had the same results. Jameel has a vertical version he took while we were there at landscape. You are correct, it should be vertical. I don’t care much for verticals so I seldom turn my camera that way

 

[AlanLichty]

The perfect solution for this scene would be a TS-E lens using shift in portrait orientation.

 

[Ben Egbert]

And I had both the 17 and 24 versions but sold them to get a 24-70 and 11-24

 

[AlanLichty]

This would have been a good place for the 24mm.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Or you stitch with a few shots taken in the portrait version.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

I didn't mess with the distortion

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Darcy, no problem, getting the darkness fixed was part of it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Or you stitch with a few shots taken in the portrait version.

Of course, the obvious answer for a landscape image here.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Last day to get an entry in for this weeks contest.