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-- Mangroves @ Chek Jawa Boardwalk -- HDR 90

What are mangroves?

The word 'mangrove' is used to refer to both the plants as well as the entire community of plants. According to Tomlinson, mangroves may be defined as tropical trees that grow only in the intertidal and adjacent communities.

 

Mangrove trees grow where no tree has grown before. They are able to survive inundation by salt water twice a day, and in 'soil' which is soft, unstable and poor in oxygen (anaerobic). They also have to deal with rivers carrying silt during the wet season, as well as violent storms that hit the coasts.

 

 

Me

Mangroves at the Chek Jawa Boardwalk at Pulau Ubin this was taken during the first trip, this time we couldn’t able to go to this place exploring more on the other side of ubin for sunset and sunrise but nothing had happen except rain this time also.

 

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Shot

Usual Standard three exposure shot bracketing [-3, 0, +3] with 11-18mm sony lens

 

Process

HDR Tone mapped detail enhancer option

One mask layer Hue/ Saturation Master

One mask layer Hue/ Saturation Blues

One mask layer Hue/ Saturation yellows

One mask layer Hue/ Saturation greens

Used Burn tool slightly in some spots

One mask layer Curves for contrast

One mask Levels layer for brightness

High pass sharpening (Thanks to Erroba)

Noise reduction

Added black strips

 

Mangrove

 

You

All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome.

 

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Uploaded on November 11, 2009
Taken on November 10, 2009