This is my first entry shooting RAW and using HDR. I am curious to see how this does. Compositionally, I don't think this is a very strong image, but I do like the quality of the light. I had a hard time finding rivers and streams that fit the image of what I wanted to shoot, so I headed out Saturday at sunset to take some water shots in the marshlands where the Napa and Sonoma Rivers empty into the San Francisco Bay.
Generated an HDR from 5 separate RAW files exposed from 1/10 to 1 sec, then tonemapped in Photomatix. Saved as a TIFF. Removed a dust spot in PS Elements, did a minor saturation and lightness adjustment, added an 80B cooling filter in soft light mode, then some USM, resize, USM and gaussian blur, border S4W.
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neat image has stretched her plastic wrap over this water, but the colors are lovely in their understated glory and the composition offers the viewer movement room
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