Ring of Rife

About

 

Dedicated to those who lost everything, during the recent earthquakes and other weather events in the Pacific region.

 

** David de Groot and I have had to cancel our 'Basic Portrait Workshop' today, due to poor weather, please visit our group here for more details. **

 

www.flickr.com/groups/brisbane-workshops/

 

I've not posted an HDR in a while, this is a extreme HDR, the colour is not too pushed, but the dark tones are one of the techniques I use to create 'Mood'

 

I've posted the basic HDR settings below.... David and I are planning an HDR workshop - same format as our Portrait one (which is canceled due to weather), please visit our group and discus ideas.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

Enjoy.

 

- Canon 50D.

- ISO 100, f11, 1/30, 10mm

- Sigma 10-20mm lens.

- Tripod.

 

Processing

 

- HDR from 3 RAW images -2,0,+1 (simple 3 shot auto bracket)

- Saturation.

 

HDR

 

- Tone mapped using Photomatix HDR, in detail mode.

- Strength: 90

- Saturation: 82

- Lim: 8

- Black point: 6

- White point: 1

 

About The Pacific Ring of Fire

 

The Pacific Ring of Fire (or sometimes just the Ring of fire) is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.

 

About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt, which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.

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