Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
We stopped at Saint John on our Canadian cruise out of New York in September 2022. Our goal for our one-day visit was simply to walk around the city near the dock where the Carnival Magic tied down for the day.
The Saint John Cruise Port is one of the primary ports of call for cruise ships visiting the Bay of Fundy region. The port can accommodate large vessels and offers a range of facilities and services for cruise passengers. For cruisers who do not even wish to walk uptown, there is a container village featuring souvenir shops and other typical vendors of cruise products, tour companies, and even a lounge only open to cruise ship employees who want to spend some of their free time off the ship.
About the photo: Upon leaving the ship, we walked over to Water Street and I saw an opportunity to capture the Carnival Magic in a two-image panoramic photograph. The ship is home to about 1400 crew members who service the needs of around 3700 passengers, typically.
I brought the two images, bow and stern each 12,000 by 9,000 pixels, into Adobe Lightroom’s panoramic stitcher and then reduced the panorama’s size to 4096 pixels wide before I shipped the combined image off to Luminar Neo. Loading super large images into Neo for processing can take a very long time to do basic processing tasks that would be wasted on the resolution of a typical blog post.
The weather was mostly overcast and the sky really didn’t complement the image so I experimented with sky replacement. As we arrived early in the morning, I found a sky from Luminar’s collection that reflected the appropriate time of day for us to leave the ship. The dock is oriented mostly north and south so with the ship pointed in a northwesterly direction, the clouds would be lit from the left rear of the ship with the light stronger at the stern. The angle of the sun in the sky I chose didn’t match the orientation of the ship so I used the “flip” option in the sky replacement tool. That moved the angle of the sun toward the rear of the ship.
If you look at the original version, you can see that the eastern side of the taller section of the cruise terminal appears to be properly lit by the sun but the upper level of the tallest section appears to be a bit in the shade of a cloud. In the modified image, I used the brush mask to first raise the exposure to the upper section of that tall eastern wall to match the lower part of the wall. Then I masked the entire wall of that section and raised the exposure a bit more to emphasize the sunlit wall. Taking care of small details with shadows and sunlight angles when using sky replacement makes the final image realistic and believable. I used Neo’s Golden Hour slider to give the plants in the foreground a bit of early morning color. Were you able to tell immediately that something wasn’t quite right in the sky or the lighting? Which version of the image do you prefer? Let me know what you think in the comments. For a closer look at the images, click on either one above to view them on my Flickr site in 2K HD.
I encourage fellow bloggers to create their own Cellpic Sunday posts. I never have a specific topic for this feature, and the only rules are that the photo must be captured with a cell phone, iPad, or another mobile device… If you have an image from a drone or even a dashcam, that’s acceptable as well. The second rule is to link your challenge response to this post or leave a comment here with a link to your post in the comment. Oh, and, you don’t have to post it on a Sunday.
John Steiner
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The first photo is so good John 🙂
Thanks, Brian!
The sky replacement gives it a lovely dreamy quality although the original version is also nice 🙂. My rather simple entry here:
Thanks, PR! I admit to only thinking about publishing the second image. Then I decided to play in Luminar Neo. >grin<
Great photo John!
Thanks, Aletta!
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There is a lot more magic going on in this image, John–magic you created. Not a bad start to the original image, but wow, the magic you added makes it all pop! Good info about the Cruise Line as well 🙂 Most of my shots today are cellpics, I went small: https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/07/16/sunday-stills-lets-get-small/
Thanks, Terri. Programs like Neo really make simple editing tools that do the real magic.
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Wow, you’re an artist, John. The things Lightroom makes possible is amazing. This cruise lines could use this shot for publicity.
Thanks, Dan!!
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John, I like the the sky in both pictures. Sky replacement is a magic tool! Your enhancements look great!
Thank you, Robert! I always enjoy playing with sky replacement, but I also point out when I’ve used it. 🙂
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An amazing difference with the sky, John 👏 I can’t believe the size of cruise ships now 😲 Here’s mine: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2023/07/17/greenan-tower-cellpic-sunday/
Some companies continue to grow them larger. They are gigantic compared to those beautiful liners built in the early 20th century.
I’ve seen a meme of the Titanic scaled against a modern cruise ship & it’s dwarfed by it 😲
Indeed, that giant Titanic is small by today’s standards. Interesting progress, isn’t it, Jez!
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I like them both, John and I’m glad you posted them so we could have a comparison.
Here is mine:
Thanks, Sofia. It’s another example of me not able to leave well enough alone. >grin<
😀
The sky replacement -dramatic!
Love the luxury liner, vast indeed!
Thanks, Philo!
You are welcome, John.
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Thanks for your follow request on Instragram. 😊
Just getting back to Instagram after a break.
That’s cool, I enjoy IG, maybe more than my WordPress blog sometimes.
Wow, you went to a lot of trouble with this post. I think it was worth it. I love the sky you created. 🙂
Thanks, Marsha! I hope you guys are keeping cool!
Thank goodness for AC! Even in Scottsdale, the new furnace works great keeping it quite comfortable even in 118 degree heat.
I like both, John! The sky replacement is fun to play with. 🙂
It is indeed!
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Nice one
Thanks!