Here's another image from the Civil War reenactment, a battle shot for a change. It was difficult to get good photos of the battle because the sun was in front of the line of spectators and much of the action was kind of distant, but I did get a few good ones like this one of the cavalry fighting.
I converted the image to B&W, cropped it to pano, and then added two of my textures and "Trashed" texture from Shadowhouse Creations.
Any comments and suggestions would be most appreciated!
Olympus SP-550 UZ
f5.6 @ 1/200, ISO 100, -0.3 EV
Program mode, pattern metering, auto WB
Processed in PS CS2
Hi Christopher, I like the action and effect very much. The camp in the backround,pano crop,creases and smoke add to the overall. I might take out the cut horse on the right....
Christopher, another winner but...maybe level out the horizon a bit? It seems the FG goes downhill and that didn't bother me that much until I noticed the clump of trees in the BG/center area and they are tilted as well. Any way to get it more even without starting all over?
Processing is fantastic and looks very authentic. I really like the vignette on this one as well.
The conversion is excellent and very old timey. Straightening the horizen made a definite improvement. The composition is very effective. The partial horse on the right is a bit distracting, but I know what you mean removing it might unbalance the composition. I would like to see one without it.
Last edited by Bill Randall; 10-26-2010 at 07:35 PM.