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... lightness, more details, more to see - so better than the other one, IMHO. Unfortunately without the agile cow ;-) KR Arno

I like it much - great to scroll through the entire pano !
Have you thought about to brighten it a bit - just a nuance ? VG HJ

@HJB1: I have "brightened up this dull day" a bit on my test site (10164). Please tell me what direction you want to go. LG Jan.

Very beautiful landscape study. Both versions are good, I prefer this darker, as always... LG Fried

It will not come as a surprise that the darker version is more to my taste, too. My impression is that you have succeeded in capturing the essential characteristics of this landscape. LG Wilfried

Hi Jan, thanks for sharing with me the brightened up version. Mostly I prefer light and bright pano. Did you decrease the contrast ? However it appears that the colours now are less saturated as on the current version. Maybe try with tone mapping by lifting the middle and upper levels, so that the contrast remains crisp. The bright parts will become more bright, of course, but this is what you expect anyway when looking into the sun.... HJ

My only complaint would be that one of the freight ships is partially hidden by a tree (;-))! Big like from Canada otherwise! Augustin

Thank you for the opinions. HJB has analysed the situation well - in the test version I first tried to brighten up the whole 2 ticks, but that wasn't so good. Then, as he suspected, I was afraid to make the sunbathed sea even more blinding, so I tried to brighten up 1 tick + gamma correction to 1,10. That would mostly brighten up the midtones. But it isn't that good either.

Both versions are de-saturated 1 tick, but the test version had a slight "digital" cast, so I took out/added a little blue/yellow.

Later in the evening I will try to brighten up the whole thing, and then lower the darker parts (that is what I like best in the pano - the dark clouds and the dark/clear horizon) - the sunlit landscape I agree is too dark.

LG Jan.

The new reload: GIMP - curves - in the high end of the curve it has been dragged to the left = lightened with dynamic range kept. LG Jan.

Scheint ja eine schwierige Geburt zu sein, obwohl ich gleich beim ersten Betrachten anerkennend bemerken mußte, wie fein gezeichnet alles ist, auch, wie gut beherrscht die große Sonnenschein-Fläche ist, und wie die Schwarzkiefern überwunden wurden. Ich finde jedenfalls, daß alles bestens gemacht ist.

Before some days I saw a version I didn't really like. I think it was a little bit darker and with less fine outlines.
The ship in the lighted area is the eye-catcher, great!
LG Jörg

Really great Landscape study Witz fine structures as always! But vor ne it is top dark!

Greetings Seb

What do you think about the test version, #10164? Lg Jan.

Everything brightened a little (a tick brightness and a tick in "curves", shadows kept dark, with levels in GIMP), a little red and magenta taken out (GIMP), no de-saturation, down-scaling and sharpening in Irfanview. LG Jan.

Wow, great! I think now it is not to increase anymore, isn't it?
LG Jörg

Chapeau Jan!!! LG Hans-Jörg

Mit Hochachtung schaue ich auf den perfekten Horizont. Ausgezeichnet!! Herzliche Grüße Velten

A very authentic presentation (especially light and colors), I think.