Canaveral National Seashore Sunrise No. 5 - HDR

[Robert Amoruso]

1/3/09
Canon 1D Mark III
17-40mm @ 29mm
Subject dist: 655m
1/6 sec, 1/3 sec, 0.6 sec, 1.3 sec, f/14
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
Exp comp: +1
AEB comp: -2, -1, 0 +1
Total Exp comp: -1, 0, +1, +2
ISO: 50

There is a halo and if I decide to print it or use the JPG in a presentation, I will take care of that. It is partly due to the over sharpening and the HDR light smoothing (or lack thereof). I over sharpened it as I like the graphic quality it presented. I know this is not to everyone's taste and that is fine. Horizontal has been leveled.

This image is about having the "HDR look".

[Rene Quenneville]

Beautiful tones and nice composition. I love the sky and the sea. You could maybe darken the beach and increase its contrast. The beach is not strong enough compared to the rest of the composition.

[Dave Mills]

Robert...Beautiful as presented. Rule of thirds well executed here. Lots of impact!!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Robert,
Now I see why you do the seascapes.......Florida is one tough landscape place!
I really like this also except for the Halo at the top of the sand....but an easy correction as you said. Originally I thought like Rene did.......add contrast to the sand.....but as i contemplated that some more I realized that the sand would then become too dominant and as presented it flows nicely with the rest of the tones in the scene. So IMO.......another winner for your seascapes.

[Harold Davis]

i love the warm tones myself. just curious. how will you correct the halo? thanks.

[Robert Amoruso]

Harold,

The strong white halo right on the sand dune is due to sharpening. I will selectively mask that in the redo. The larger halo is due to Photomatix and the low light smoothing setting I used. I will probably first create a curves adjustment, paint black over the how image except of at the dunes and the sky neat that. I will then use a curves adjustment to bring down the brightness of the halo. I may have to use various graduated density masks to make it right.

In Photomatix I could increase light smoothing to reduce halos but then other areas of the image will lose the look I wish it to have. I also have a program called Dynamic HDR which suspossedly can treat for this locally so I may try tone-mapping in that program too.

[Robert Amoruso]

BTW,

This also looks good as a pano cropped above the bright yellow cloud.

[Harold Davis]

BTW,

This also looks good as a pano cropped above the bright yellow cloud.

agreed!! and thanks so much for your reply!

[Grady Weed]

The colors are explosive Robert. It is as if the whole world is on fire! Hopefully will see you in the glades soon.