St. John's Fishing Pier - St. Augustine Beach

[Michael Pancier]

A 3 image HDR of the Pier taken before I headed out to the Alligator Farm a few weeks ago.

50d + 10-22 @ 22mm
f/18
ISO 100

Used Photomatix to combine the images.

[Robert Amoruso]

HDR looks good in this one Michael. Try cropping some off the right and making the image more vertical. The comp of the pier says TALL to me. A vertical would accentuate that and balance the image better IMO.

[Michael Pancier]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3320/3511974363_0eda48d7a0_o.jpg

here's a version I did in vertical (this was a vertical shot and not a crop). I'm thinking of cropping some on the side and the bottom on this one. I just like the wave action better on the landscape version....

[Harold Davis]

the second one is awesome!! i just like the perspective better.

[Rich Ikerd]

While the wave action in the first is best, the vertical composition really accentuates the height of the pier. Both are nice, but the vertical one (if you remove a bit of the left and right foreground posts) would be my favorite of the two.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Michael,
love both as presented and with the crop recommendations. One of your strongest to date and a nice luxury to have with all the crops. I even tried one eliminating the piers entirely in the vert with equal off the bottom and that looked great too. very nicely done!