October Sunrise

[Rene Quenneville]

I woke up early this morning in order to capture some fall colors. Here is a HDR of the sunrise. It is not a usual landscape and I would love to have your honnest opinion. I developped it with Photomatix option Detail Enhancer. Then in PS I did some dodge and burn. The dodging was mostly on the foreground elements (cows).

Iso 400
f/11
66mm
1/20s, 1/40s, 1/80s, 1/160s, 1/320s
Nikon D200

[Robert Amoruso]

Rene,

I am not sure the HDR here did anything useful. I find the FG and cows distracting and would suggest cropping just above the cows. For me a better option would be a 3 stop hard edge graduated neutral density filter to lower the brightness of the sky and allow ample exposure for the FG.

However, the sunrise is glorious though I see some funky red-haloing at the tree line presumably due to the HDR. I suggest picking the best exposure of the sky and let the trees be a silhouette.

[Rachel Hollander]

Rene - nice fiery colors. Good points and suggestions by Robert.

TFS,
Rachel

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Rene, love the color in the sky...looks like it is on fire! Robert makes some very good suggestions for improvement.

[Rene Quenneville]

thank you all. i knew about the hallo but wanted to get your comments before reprocessing. I will keep working on this one.