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Rubi Alianças. R. São Bento
Yes It was almost 2 hours to take this picture. This building is a important place in São Paulo downtown, this formerly was a house of a watchmaker and sale of esoteric books, later his sons sold this building in pieces to a corporation, today is a commerce center, and of course what makes this photo special, like all the others, is something merely subjective. Thanks for your question --The Photographer 02:00, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Thanks for your answer. The reason I asked, in part, was because a lot of this picture, especially in the upper parts of the building, is quite grainy. Is there anything you can do to substantially mitigate this? (The light is also hazy, but as you've explained repeatedly, there's not much you can do about that in São Paulo.) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:29, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The best practice should be take a hdr picture, however, 6 hours to take a picture in this place is crazy. Let me see what I can do with photoshop to reduce grainy (It's not a clarity effect or whatever) --The Photographer 02:35, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, that would be insane! I'll have a look after you've edited. Thanks for doing it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:40, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Selective noise reduction applied --The Photographer 03:23, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I greatly appreciate the effort you put into this. Unfortunately, I still don't really think this is an FP, so I regret that I will vote to  Oppose, in the end. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:58, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No problem --The Photographer 13:35, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done --The Photographer 13:35, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Ikan. Still too many stitching errors, including a big one in the top right. The top of the building is clearly showing the stretch effects of vertical perspective correction, with all the pixel-level defects in the sensor noise and lens aberrations being magnified several times. I recommend you ensure such CA is fully fixed, and to reduce sharpening (either lower the sharpening level or apply a mask) before saving your frames that will end up being stitched. Then the defects will not be so magnified. Also, when you have an image like this where there is stretching then it is fair to downsize in order that the overall image is sharp -- Diliff downsizes most of his stitches and there isn't much point in someone downloading 96MP only to see a soft and noisy image. I think also per Ikan that this isn't the most "wow" of subjects nor lighting. I think you will continue to be frustrated until you get a proper pano head, and I'm sure FP would help crowdfund one! You'll then spend less time Photoshopping out the stitching errors. -- Colin (talk) 16:43, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Are you using the nodal ninja, or other panoramic head to do that?
PhotoShop is not great one doing this, even Hugin is better, other not paid software is microsoft ice, that works better than the PS CS6, and it's easier than Hugin.
And if you are using a tripod, why 1/125s and ISO 320? Did you underexposed and bring the highlights in post? Because ISO 320 is not that high, why so grainy?
-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 04:44, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton I used a high ISO and a fast shutter speed to improve the camera vibration caused maybe by the Sao Paulo metro. The grains are due to the shadown compensation performed with Lightroom and I agree with you, Photoshop does not do a good job. BTW, I haven't a nodal ninja, however, using some Colin suggestions I started a crowdfund to get one. --The Photographer 16:14, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 0 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /lNeverCry 08:47, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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