You're absolutely right, Chuck. I think this is where I break out the
tutorials on PS and layers and try to separate the building and brighten it
up. No reason for the different crops aside from the two images were
cropped separately.
The ride on the I&M is only 30 minutes up and 30 minutes back through some
very beautiful and peaceful scenery. I really wish they'd open it up for
several more miles to make the trip longer. I also wish they'd restore a
lock to functionality so you could also get the full experience of locking
through.
Thanks for looking!
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Maybe the reason you can't make up your mind is that I think the best
> version would be somewhere in between. The non-HDR building is too dark
> but allows the sky greater prominence. The HDR building is brighter but
> tends to steal attention from the sky. Maybe somewhere in between is the
> right mix. But If I was forced to choose one or the other I'd choose the
> HDR version. BTW, what accounts for the different crops?
>
> Some friends recently asked us if we were interested in taking a boat tour
> on the Erie Canal. Our response was no. Much of the canal parallels the
> New York State Thruway which is on relatively flat and rather boring (for
> New York) terrain. We frequently drive much of the Thruway and have for
> very many years. We decided that a boat tour on the Erie Canal would be
> tantamount to crossing much of the same rather boring terrain but at an
> extremely slow and doubly boring pace. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
>
> On 10/7/2014 5:30 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
>
>> Non-HDR works for me.
>>
>> ...Wayne
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [OM] Paul's PAW - along the I&M canal
>>
>> Sheri and I went to LaSalle, IL yesterday to ride the replica passenger
>> packet boat on a section of restored Illinois & Michigan Canal. (Those
>> photos to come later).
>>
>> On the way home, we stopped in Seneca, IL just before sunset so I could
>> get
>> a photo of the M. J. Hogan grain elevator, one of the oldest original
>> structures along the I&M. It was opened in 1862, and is still standing.
>> Back in its heyday, it could move 750,000 bushels of grain in a season.
>>
>> I know there are canals everywhere, but the I&M is part of my heritage as
>> a
>> native Chicagoan. Prior to the I&M, Chicago was a small trading post on
>> the
>> lake. Any goods that needed to get to or from Chicago had to be carried
>> over
>> land through some pretty rough terrain, so it wasn't that popular of an
>> option. The Canal allowed the movement of commodities from the East coast,
>> throught the Great Lakes, along the I&M to the Illinois River, then to the
>> Mississippi and down to the Gulf. Suddenly, Chicago became a center of
>> commerce.
>>
>> Unlike the Erie, which has been modified, enlarged, and rebuilt over the
>> years, the I&M was officially abandoned in 1933 when the newer Illinois
>> Waterway system was opened. Parts have been restored as a park, parts were
>> filled in, parts are just dry and/or overgrown with weeds. For me, it's
>> like
>> finding an abandoned old highway overgrown with trees and weeds. Most
>> people
>> don't even know it's there - for example, here in Seneca, it just looks
>> like
>> a drainage ditch. The majority of people who drive over it have no clue
>> that
>> it was once a superhighway through Illinois. I like to try and keep the
>> history alive in tribute to the thousands of men, mostly Irish, who worked
>> to dig all 96 miles of it by hand, many of whom died in the process
>> (although nobody kept any records to indicate who died).
>>
>> I shot a bunch on the tripod, then packed it up and walked across the
>> street
>> to shoot a view of the overgrown prism (official terminology for the canal
>> bed, since a cross-section was prism-shaped) looking the other way.
>> As I crossed back, I looked up and suddenly a bit of sun had broken
>> through
>> the heavy clouds and there were pink highlights... damn! I ran back to
>> where
>> I was before, extending tripod legs as I ran, plugged the cable release
>> back
>> in, and shot a 7-shot bracketed burst about 10 seconds before the pink
>> disappeared. I had less than one minute to grab that shot.
>>
>> I've posted two versions - one that's a single frame, tweaked a bit in LR
>> to
>> saturate the pink a bit more and to de-saturate the green a touch. The
>> other one was processed in HDR Efex 2 at a lighter setting. I'm not 100%
>> sure which one I like. There seems to be some slight haloing in the HDR
>> one
>> - maybe if I tried again and left the brightest frame out of the mix...
>>
>> Lemmeno whatchu think.
>>
>> Non-HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14626
>>
>> HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14629
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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