From Chihuly's Garden

Comments/suggestions welcome!

... waiting for the next hail storm ...

Nice picture.. No need for improvement. BTW which is this? I am unable to guess.

wow beautiful flowers

KCook wrote: ... waiting for the next hail storm ...

Actually, those things aren't like Christmas tree ornaments: very heavy, although blown glass.

jackflaming wrote: Nice picture.. No need for improvement. BTW which is this? I am unable to guess.

I don't know if you are slily pulling my leg, but, seeing you are from India, I'll take it as a serious question. This is the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, as seen from a permanent exhibit of some works by Dale Chihuly, an extraordinary glass blower who has greatly expanded the limits of the craft. And, thanks for commenting!

Rob pix4u2 wrote: wow beautiful flowers

Thanks, Rob!

I like it. Needs to be straightened and I think the WB is off.

Thanks for commenting, Scotty. I get RGB values of 99, 99, 99 on the white peak of the roof on the left, and it was a RAW file. What do you find in the WB? The 15mm lens distorts, of course: eliminating it in LR and PS, which would make the ground more horizontal, would crop the image more than I wanted, so I decide to leave it. Maybe I should have discarded the whole shot...!

John Landolfi wrote:

jackflaming wrote: Nice picture.. No need for improvement. BTW which is this? I am unable to guess.

I don't know if you are slily pulling my leg, but, seeing you are from India, I'll take it as a serious question. This is the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, as seen from a permanent exhibit of some works by Dale Chihuly, an extraordinary glass blower who has greatly expanded the limits of the craft. And, thanks for commenting!

Thanks john for your reply. I had never asked if I already knew what it is.

jackflaming wrote:

John Landolfi wrote:

jackflaming wrote: Nice picture.. No need for improvement. BTW which is this? I am unable to guess.

I don't know if you are slily pulling my leg, but, seeing you are from India, I'll take it as a serious question. This is the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, as seen from a permanent exhibit of some works by Dale Chihuly, an extraordinary glass blower who has greatly expanded the limits of the craft. And, thanks for commenting!

Thanks john for your reply. I had never asked if I already knew what it is.

John Landolfi wrote: Thanks for commenting, Scotty. I get RGB values of 99, 99, 99 on the white peak of the roof on the left, and it was a RAW file. What do you find in the WB? The 15mm lens distorts, of course: eliminating it in LR and PS, which would make the ground more horizontal, would crop the image more than I wanted, so I decide to leave it. Maybe I should have discarded the whole shot...!

Not sure if this is the same thing Scotty was seeing or not, but what I see is that you could probably straighten it by rotating slightly clockwise, but keep the lens distortion as it adds a cool ultra-wide angle look. Or maybe use the lens profile correction in LR, but dial back the distortion slider to a point where it doesn't crop as much.

As far as the white balance goes, it looks a little cyan to me.

Very cool shot (not just in WB ) and I definitely wouldn't say to discard it.

Thanks, Roy. I did try what you suggest (perhaps not skillfully enough). If you look at the middle strut on the Needle, it is horizontal. Rotating CW slightly tilts it to SE, and it is very noticeable in the framing of the shot. So I tried a Horizontal Perspective correction in LR, which ate too much foreground, and made the frame too narrow when cropped, requiring further trimming of the foreground, which started to make no sense with too little of the glass visible. I then tried using Free Transform in PS, but all this aping around didn't come close to correcting the perspective while keeping some semblance of the original idea. So I decide to leave it, hoping the upward thrust provided by the lens may give an idea of the intent and be acceptable... Thanks for taking the time to comment!