The photo is of the Lili'uokalani Protestant Church in Hale'iwa Town, Oahu, Hawaii at sunrise.
This is my first submission to a Member Challenge. This is also my first attempt at using a layer mask in Photoshop to clean up an HDR; I absolutely love the results.
I took 3 photos: -2, 0, and +2; imported them into Lightroom; and merged them in Photomatix Pro. I actually made two separate HDRs in Photomatix: one with the smoothing on High and the other with the smoothing on Low. Then imported both HDRs into Photoshop and used a layer mask blend the best portions of both images. Image was then sent into Lightroom for minor adjustments and cropping.
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This is another frame-within-a-frame where the frame steals the show though saturation and contrast. The building in the back should be where the eye goes not the frame.
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