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Terry Johnson
01-06-2015, 07:03 PM
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Hello, this image was taken a month ago while on a weekend trip to Depoe Bay, Oregon. It is a wave-action blow-hole. It was a dark image so I used HDR to bring out the foreground.

Nikon D810
Nikon 24-70MM @ 28MM
1/500
F-4
ISO-64

Your comments please...Terry Johnson:S3:

Don Railton
01-06-2015, 11:27 PM
Hi Terry,

The lightening of a dark image rarely works, and this is no exception unfortunately...I feel the colours a washed out quite badly. Sorry...!
Its a nice piece of timing on what would have been a spectacular image. Have you tried processing it normally? I think its worth checking alternative processing methods as its worth the effort IMHO..

regards

DON

Tobie Schalkwyk
01-06-2015, 11:57 PM
Nice spot worthy of a shot, Terry! A lot of purplish colours in the rocks, water & clouds which probably indicates over PP'ing or incorrect WB. I would have loved a wider shot...

Diane Miller
01-07-2015, 12:06 AM
Very nice catch! I'd love to see it with a less heavy hand on the HDR processing.

Morkel Erasmus
01-07-2015, 05:18 PM
Nice splash here Terry but I do agree with the above comments - midtones look washed out and HDR looks overcooked to me.
I'm sure you can get a lot more out of it by double-processing the RAW in a manual exposure blend?

Don Lacy
01-09-2015, 04:24 PM
Agree with the others on the processing, when you say the foreground was dark by how much was it underexposed if its 2 or 3 stops you should be able to pull plenty of detail without much of a penalty.

Andrew McLachlan
01-09-2015, 11:20 PM
Hi Terry, looks like a very heavy-handed Shadow / Highlight Adjustment was used. If you start over and select Nik's Detail Extrator it will pull out some wonderful details in the wave crash.

Terry Johnson
01-21-2015, 12:12 PM
Thank you all for your comments...Terry Johnson