Crex Sunrise with repost

I have been reading Ferrell McCollough’s book on High Dynamic Range photography so I decided to give it a try last week at Crex Meadows. This is my first attempt.

Comments are appreciated.

Phil Schwarz
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Very nice. Did you do this in photoshop or did you use one of the other HDR software tools. I was looking into Hydra that is an Aperture plug-in. I just want to try some and any info would be great.
thanks

Brian Eady

Looks pretty good to me, Phil. I have been using Photomatix and have been pretty happy with the way it works. I have McCollough's Book too. Another good one is the Rocky Nook publication.

I, too, would be interested in what you used on this -- in terms of the software and also in terms of the files you used to create it

I used Photomatix for this one. Brian if you get a chance to look at McCollough's book he lists some of the HDR programs and compares them in a table on page 70.

Nicely captured. Seems very under HDR'd to me. Too often it is easy to go over the top. If you had not said it I might not have guess it.

Although the centered sun works here I think it might also look good with the blue sky cropped out.

You've avoided the "stereotypical HDR look" (something I've been developing a workflow to do for the past couple of years) very well here.

Is it just me or is this in need of a CCW rotation?

Good job with the HDR treatment here. The top of the frame isn't doing much though, and I think a crop from the top would add to the overall composition.

Phil,

I think that you did a great job with the image and processing. I've hardly tried HDR (w/ PS), but it's something that I hope to improve upon in the future...

Tim!

Nice job w/ the HDR processing..it's not overdone which is too often the problem w/ HDR. I would crop to more of a pano to eliminate some of, if not most of, the blue sky.

Nice image. Not sure about the HDR but if this is the result then it works for me. I would imagine that in larger size ti adds more than shows here. Would have been a nice sunrise to catch and I get a feel for moment in thim you caught.

I thought the image was a little tilted but when I looked at in grid view it appeared to be straight. The tilt might be an optical illusion. In the repost I did tilt the image and removed some of the sky.


I finally finished going though my photos from last weeks trip to Crex Meadows
And have posted them on my website. Lots of flowers, birds and sunrise and sunset pictures

I like this composition, it really brings out the FG elements in a way that got a little lost in the OP. Thanks for the repost, I like it a lot!!