Post your best Landscape...

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Patrick:

I like your landscapes. I always like long exposures.

On the last one you have an HDR picture. I am not real versed in HDR... so take my comment as one from someone with no relevant knowledge. If you have 7 shots with 2 EV spacing between shots, that would give you a total of 12 EV spread. I did not think you could have that kind of spread without the two extremes being all black and all white. My understanding is an EV is basically one stop on your camera, and each EV (at the same aperture) would double your exposure time. That just seems like a very large spread. I guess my question is... do you get that kind of range because you are looking directly into the sun? And how do you get all the detail and waves without ghosting or artifacts?

Again, I enjoyed all your shots - I hope you continue to post.

Pat

[Local Hero]

Patrick:

I like your landscapes. I always like long exposures.

On the last one you have an HDR picture. I am not real versed in HDR... so take my comment as one from someone with no relevant knowledge. If you have 7 shots with 2 EV spacing between shots, that would give you a total of 12 EV spread. I did not think you could have that kind of spread without the two extremes being all black and all white. My understanding is an EV is basically one stop on your camera, and each EV (at the same aperture) would double your exposure time. That just seems like a very large spread. I guess my question is... do you get that kind of range because you are looking directly into the sun? And how do you get all the detail and waves without ghosting or artifacts?

Again, I enjoyed all your shots - I hope you continue to post.

Pat

In truth I probably didn't need the 7 shot HDR, I probably would have been fine with three like I usually do for HDR. I had set the custom functions of the camera to take brackets in series of 7 for something else (although I don't remember what) and I hadn't changed it back. So when I switched over to take a bracketed shot I noticed the setting but I didn't want to waste any time changing it because the sun was already rising.

The reason I did an HDR is because I liked the texture of the pier but being in shadow and the bright sun being in the same frame I wouldn't be able to adequately capture that contrast in a single frame.

With regards to the ghosting and artifacts most of it got cleared up with by simply clicking the "Remove ghosts" in HDR Pro, I only fixed one or two with a layer mask.