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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Richard Pearlman on December 25, 2014, 11:30:25 pm

Title: Golden Hour on the Cahaba River
Post by: Richard Pearlman on December 25, 2014, 11:30:25 pm: Earlier this week I visited this location with a certain shot in mind. When I initially visited, the sky was overcast, and the light was dull. However, I thought I saw potential in the location under a different type of light. Today, when I arrived at the location, I was surprised to see that the water level had risen several feet. The original shot I had envisioned was not possible at today's water level, so I searched for a new shot. After trying several locations, I settled on this one. I was attracted by the light on the tree in the middle of the river, and I thought that the river would be nicely blurred. This image ended up being a 3 shot exposure blend to account for the dynamic range of the scene. Comments and critiques are appreciated.
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 25, 2014, 11:59:34 pm: I like it a lot.
The lighted tree and the flowing river work nicely together.
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Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on December 26, 2014, 01:28:44 am: Very nice!
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Post by: muntanela on December 26, 2014, 03:25:57 am: Wonderful.
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Post by: Jeremy Roussak on December 26, 2014, 04:07:26 am: Well done. Worth the planning.

Jeremy
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Post by: thierrylegros396 on December 26, 2014, 04:22:04 am: Well done and well processed HDR scene ;)

Thierry
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Post by: Chairman Bill on December 26, 2014, 06:09:20 am: That's a beaut. Wish I'd taken it
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Post by: Tony Jay on December 26, 2014, 06:32:49 am: Great vision!
And well executed!

Tony Jay
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Post by: Chris Calohan on December 26, 2014, 09:11:16 am: Nice one!
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Post by: rgs on December 27, 2014, 12:19:12 am: Well done. I almost didn't open the image file because the thumb didn't look very promising. Boy was I wrong. The bigger this is the better it looks. I was also surprised to read that it is HDR because I don't like HDR but I like this one very much. Very nice work. Congrats!
Title: Re: Golden Hour on the Cahaba River
Post by: Chris Calohan on December 27, 2014, 09:10:46 am: HDR done properly will never resemble what most folks think of as HDR which is generally in your face gaudy. High Dynamic Range is about capturing the best attributes from a series of shots and belending them into one image. I might suggest you take a look at Sean Bagshaw's tutorial on HDR done the correct way.

http://www.photocascadia.com/blog/use-lightroom-or-camera-raw-to-create-natural-32-bit-hdr-images-by-sean-bagshaw/#.VJ69qcBG5Q (http://www.photocascadia.com/blog/use-lightroom-or-camera-raw-to-create-natural-32-bit-hdr-images-by-sean-bagshaw/#.VJ69qcBG5Q)
Title: Re: Golden Hour on the Cahaba River
Post by: Richard Pearlman on December 27, 2014, 09:26:11 am: Quote from: rgs on December 27, 2014, 12:19:12 am
Well done. I almost didn't open the image file because the thumb didn't look very promising. Boy was I wrong. The bigger this is the better it looks. I was also surprised to read that it is HDR because I don't like HDR but I like this one very much. Very nice work. Congrats!

I manually blended the images in photoshop using the luminosity mask method. It is tedious, but it is the only method I've tried to create realistic looking HDR.