Taken at the Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, NM. Unfortunately I didn’t use a tripod so although I took three images with the intent to create an HDR image, the final result ended up a little too blurry. More unfortunately I was short on storage space by that time in the day and was shooting jpeg, not RAW – doh!! Did what I could with one jpeg.
Processing:
Single jpeg converted to -2, 0 and +2 tiff images
Tiffs converted to HDR and tonemapped in Photomatix
In Photoshop CS --
Neat Image noise reduction
Cloned out light posts, people, a rock, flecks in water
Selective dodging, burning and saturation
Lucis Arts 'Exposure' filter added as new layer at 20%
Hue/saturation adjustment layer
Levels adjustment layer
Layer in blend mode 'soft light' with black and white painting to darken/lighten selective areas
Resize
Unsharp mask
Save for web
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This really is a nice picture Colleen. The blue is very vibrant, but I don't see it as over saturated at all. Clarity and sharpness are as good as the exposure. I don't see anything not to like!
I really like the brilliant blues here but I think that the big patch of dirt on the left breaks up the neon nature of the rest of the picture though and I think it may have been nice to clone over the water from the right to the left
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