View from St. Louis 'gateway arc'

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jumbo

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Was there for a weekend. Tried my first panorama shot. (there was a thick glass in front which was not very clean). Used Photoshop CS5 to stitch the 4 pictures together.
Suggestions on how could I have made the picture better, (composition wise and post processing wise)

Exif:
D200 + 17-50 f2.8 Tamron lens
Shot at 17mm - handheld
Exposure: 1/160
F 8
ISO 400
AF Single
Aperture Priority

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fotojack

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Nice panorama shot, actually. I took the liberty to do a little tweaking on it, to show what I would have done.

Now...I agree with most of your EXIF data, except one: why did you feel the need to use ISO 400 in broad daylight? An ISO of 100 would have been plenty for this shot.
Also, in your Shooting Menu.....what do you have your Optimize Image set at? For this shot, I would have it set at Vivid, to bring out the colors in this shot.

Anyway, here's what I came up with. Tell me what YOU think:

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fotojack said:
Nice panorama shot, actually. I took the liberty to do a little tweaking on it, to show what I would have done.

Now...I agree with most of your EXIF data, except one: why did you feel the need to use ISO 400 in broad daylight? An ISO of 100 would have been plenty for this shot.
Also, in your Shooting Menu.....what do you have your Optimize Image set at? For this shot, I would have it set at Vivid, to bring out the colors in this shot.

Anyway, here's what I came up with. Tell me what YOU think:

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jumbo

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AC016 said:
Nice :) All i can say is that maybe you can stitch together a few more shots next time.
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I will definitely do that... I just had 4 pictures this time.

fotojack said:
why did you feel the need to use ISO 400 in broad daylight?
what do you have your Optimize Image set at?​
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It was actually a bit dark inside the arc, so I had it on 400 and forgot to lower it when shooting outside, my mistake.
The optimize image is actually set to vivid.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
The glass is pretty thick in there and if I remember correctly it is tinted somewhat. I used to work for a company that was just down the street. I always stayed at a hotel that was about a block away from the Gateway Arch
 
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fotojack

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jumbo said:
No error for me, and I can actually see the picture, and it looks better than what I had.
If you dont mind, would you explain what exactly you changed/and how.! (just a short version)
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Don't mind at all. :) All I did was up the gamma just a touch, tweaked the contrast and saturation. I used a little program called Irfanview. It's quick and easy and the results speak for themselves. I use this on jpegs, not raw files.
 
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jumbo

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Tracsoft - Don Kuykendall said:
The glass is pretty thick in there and if I remember correctly it is tinted somewhat.
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Yes the glass is pretty thick, not sure about the tint though... But its not clean, maybe the accumulated dirt added the tint.:p

fotojack said:
Don't mind at all. :) All I did was up the gamma just a touch, tweaked the contrast and saturation. I used a little program called Irfanview. It's quick and easy and the results speak for themselves. I use this on jpegs, not raw files.
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Thanks... I will keep that in mind, next time I need to tweak some jpegs.

crycocyon said:
How did you climb up the arch? Wow.
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Its really easy. All you have to do is pay $10 and they allow you to sit in a small capsule type elevator (you have to sit, there is no room to stand), and voila after 3/4 minutes you reach the top.
 
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