Promenade Sunrise III

The HDR, is light & almost natural !

Fabulous color and light, bravo !

stunningly beautiful image, very well done.

the light is amazing, but what brings out the beauty of the scene perfectly is your comosition. compliments -koushik

HDR is the easiest way to destroy a photo.  Here we can see how HDR should be used to improve a photo... :-)

Congratulations and regards.

I agree with the other raters: this is a quality HDR...it doesn't have any of the garish, too dramatic look most have. Very nicely done, Tony.

The drama of sunrise couldn't be any better here. Magnificent landscape, Tony.

Regards!  -  Lester

This really has all the drama needed to interest the viewer. Such vibrant colours too.

Quite amazing how you got an HDR image to look so natural. This is truly a beautiful image.

Fabulous HDR image!  Most look so fake - this is natural and the composition is wonderful.  Nice color and detail.  Good job on this capture. Do you remember how many stops difference there was from light to dark before you started?  How many exposures did you take.

Sebastien, Richard G, Koushik, Jack, Thadd, Lester, Starvy, John C and John O - many thanks for your visit and the very strong support for this image. It is indeed gratifying.

John Olsen: 3 images were taken in RAW format and one stop apart. I used photomatix v3 and then photoshop to make some final adjustments. I set my Nikon D300 on auto bracket and Continuous High speed shutter. This setting allows me to take the three images extremely rapidly thus minimizing any branch or water movement in the three images thus resulting in a sharper end product.

I also have Photoshop CS5 and sometimes I use its HDR. I really like to get HDR to solve the light range problem but it is much trial and error to get the 'natural' results.

Hope you found that info helpful.

All the best,

Fantastic colors and stunning details...

Tony,

A wonderful 'made to order sky' that supports your composition so perfectly.  Good use of HDR as the foreground colour (shadow detail) really adds to this image.

Jim

Brilliant capture of a great sunset. Love the HDR effect and hoping to one day soon I will also be able to do this effect as well. Thanks for sharing your great moments with us all. Regards J

What a beautiful image with such swirls of colors that are glowing!   Love the "twinkle" of the sun through the tree as well.   

Wonderful reflection with the beautiful clouds.  Nice color and well done composition.  Love it.  Best regards,

Many Thanks. I should be back in full PN participation mode much later this month. In the meantime, I am working on my St.Kitts and Nevis 2011 images.