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    Sloan Lake

    This is from a hike I did with my family on Saturday in American Basin which is near Lake City, Colorado. This lake is amazing and almost glows green when the sun hits it.
    I took this as six individual vertically oriented exposures and stitched them in Photoshop. Then I ran the resulting image through the Nik Color Efx plugin in Lightroom.


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    Re: Sloan Lake

    very nice pano

    I use color efex a lot, lately I tend to reduce the effect on clouds , on your image they look almost like a paint

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    Re: Sloan Lake

    I was trying to figure out how to say that. I didn't care for the cloud appearance. It's almost like a composite, as if the landscape were pasted onto a cloud shot. (The reflection would make that a nice trick, though!!)

    I like the landscape very much, but the sky.

    The stitching is well done. I guess you were shooting a plan for that? Were you on a tripod?

    When I get into situation where I decide a pano would work, I always have an issue with camera elevation just working handheld. One shot is too high, or one is twisted, and it throws the whole thing off.

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    Re: Sloan Lake

    Thanks guys. The effect in the sky is from the Color Efx Pro "Detail Extractor" effect and it does kind of make it look like a HDR. I like it for some shots but not all. I thought it worked well enough here since the landscape was so otherworldly but I think like HDR it's not everyone's cup of tea.

    I shot this handheld with a pano in mind. I have had trouble staying level before too but if I really think about it I can stay reasonably level. Shooting vertically also helps give some room for error at the top and bottom. It wasn't perfect but a little cropping makes that issue go away. I often bring a tripod and almost always do if I'm solo but with my family I just wanted to keep the kit a little smaller, lighter, and simpler.

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