Panoramics

Idaho Falls Temple; 2:00 p.m.; May 15, 2010; Idaho Falls, ID; f/4.0; 1/1000; Canon S5 IS
Enhancements: Increase saturation and adjusted levels

I was pretty happy with how this one turned out. I've never had a ton of luck taking panoramic photos, but for some reason everything worked out this time. For this pano, I stood across from the temple, and then shot each segment. I didn't use a tripod just because I seem to always have a weird arching effect when I do. Then I used the photomerge in Photoshop to stitch everything together, flattened the images, then used adjustment layers to increase the saturation and adjust the levels.

Idaho Falls Temple; 1:30 p.m.; May 15, 2010; Idaho Falls, ID; f/ 4.0; 1/800; Canon S5 IS

Enhancements: Increased saturation and adjusted levels

I took this photo down in Idaho Falls. I did several different angles and I liked this one the best. I took these photos in Program mode and then used Photoshop photomerge to stitch the photos together. After that I flattened the image, cropped it, and added adjustment layers to change the saturation and levels.

River Panoramic; 8:20 p.m.; May 14, 2010; Ririe, ID; f/ 4.0; 1/125; Canon S5 IS
Enhancements: Adjusted levels and increased saturations

When I was taking these pictures for this panoramic, I didn't think it was going to turn out very good. In the end it turned out better than I thought so I decided to include it. I used Photoshop photomerge to stitch the five different photos together. After that I cropped it and added adjustment levels to change the levels and saturation. I ended up having to save the final as a PNG because for some reason it was corrupt as a TIFF and a JPG. These shots were taken in Program mode.

RAW Editing

Locked Up; 8:30 p.m.; May 14, 2010; Ririe, ID; f/ 3.5; 1/50; Canon S5 IS
Enhancements: Camera RAW editing - Recovery 73, Fill Light 11, Contrast 26, Clarity 4, Vibrance 39, Saturation 26, Highlights curve 29

Locked Up Original

Heise Barn; 8:00 p.m.; May 14, 2010; Ririe, ID; f/ 4.0; 1/250; Canon S5 IS

Enhancements: Camera RAW editing - Recovery 31, Clarity 27, Vibrance -25, Saturation 26, Highlight curve 17, Darks curve -14, Lens Vignetting -65

Heise Barn Original

I took a little trip up to Heise, which is about 30 minutes from Rexburg. I knew this barn was up there so I thought it would give me some good colors to work with. I shot the barn photo first and then on the way back the lock at a canal check. There wasn't any specific process that I followed on either of these pictures. I took the lock photo in Aperture Priority mode and the barn photo in Program mode. I opened each of these up in Camera RAW in Photoshop and just played around with the different setting until I got the colors I wanted. I have to say that I was pretty please with how they turned out.