This might not meet the tradition description of a landscape, but hopefully the voters will be open-minded.
HDR from a 9 shot bracketing sequence. The camera settings are for the centre exposure.
Other than the HDR conversion, the editing was fairly light for an expert editing challenge.
Post Processing:
HDR from 9 RAW files.
Crop.
Hue/Saturation, Levels, Curves.
Sky overlay gradient.
Resize, smart sharpen, border and save for web.
Post challenge: I suppose radical HDR images are a love/hate thing. This over-processed look is not my normal style, but I decided it would be fun to try a heavy handed HDR image, seeing the challenge is expert editing and all. The artificial look was very much on purpse. This image did a lot better than I expected and I am happy that I entered it.
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Great use of tone mapping, my only take is that the orange is tooo oevr saturated, so it took away from the image, if it was not for that i think this would have scored even higher!
Sorry but the "HDR look" or whatever was done to this image really doesn´t appeal to me in the least. I did try to put my hand over the top 1/3 of the image and liked it much better that way so I still voted a 5 as I didn´t want to hurt your score too badly.
very nice use of expert editing I tryed to enter a hdr shot and it didn't work for me. only one complaint is that maybe there is a litte bit too much
colour. nice otherwise 6
Cool. Surreal colors. This is edging into processing territory that I tend not to like, but I think it works for this shot. The effect on the trees in the foreground reminds of shooting with tungsten-based slide film. Hope you aren't getting grief from people saying it isn't a landscape, because it most certainly is. - 8
I've seen some similar processing but I cant place the photog. Did you enter another similarly processed city shot from japan? Middle East? Pretty unreal effect but it works well for the subject.
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