I've been meaning to get this shot for the last 3 years.... but have always been foiled by arriving too late in the season or bad weather. I'd have liked a wider angle lens to have done it more justice.... but resorted to a stitched panorama.
This is a panorma stitched from 7 shots. The "Punch Bowl" in Valley Gardens (Windsor Great park) is full of amazing colours at t he moment as you can see.
The stitch was done in Photoshop and then the blown out white sky was replaced for a more dramatic sky from a streaky cloud shot with an ND110 filter.
The sky was replaced using alpha chanel layer masks and a refine edge plus multiply layer blend mode to ensure the detail around the trees, leaves and twigs was not haloed. I'm quite pleased with the result.
I also added a velvia film effect using the channel mixer upping each channel individually to 130% whilst compensating the other two by -15% to give a balanced tone with no colour cast.
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