Processing struggle - sunset pano

[elsa hoffmann]

Armando - this is seriously a superb image. One can add more contrast. One can tweak this a lot -  selectively, or not. This image is really good as is - and I think it might destroy to process it more. I sometimes tend to over-process - and when I do that - I save all the versions, leave it for a week - and re-visit it. It tends to give me perspective

[Anthony]

Wonderful image.

I prefer sunsets not to be too heavily processed.  They are worth shooting because they are a wonder of nature, and over processing spoils that.

[armando_m]

Thanks for all the comments

When the oranges covered the whole sky the right side was significantly darker, I did apply curves to bring the brightness up and keeping the layer in "normal" mode preserved the colors as I remember them.

For the second version I did reduce the tif files to 50% of the original size as the performance of Ps on the machine I had gets awful with large panos, I'm back at home and will try again at 100%.

and yes I'm planning to print it

[Peter Connan]

I absolutely love this image!