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Traverse City, Marina

I was pretty lucky in getting to see the dramatic sunrise on my family vacation at Traverse City. This is a view of the Marina at the Traverse City, MI downtown.

This is a handheld 5-exposure HDR. It is definitely hard to handheld for 5 shots. But I did use the custom function menu to set up the camera for 2 more exposure and I definitely owe this to Klaus Herrmann. Check out his blog

farbspiel-photo.com/learn/hdr-cookbook/hand-held-hdr-shoo...

Technical info : Used ACR to do color correction and defringing and converted to TIFF. Then merged all 5 exposures in Photomatix and tonemapped using details enhancer. USed Topaz denoise to reduce noise and Topaz Adjust to enhance color and then Photoshop for curves adjustment and levels. Finally, sharpened using High-pass filter.

It does look like Flickr has desaturated the colors and also some sharpness. Press "L" to view in large.

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Uploaded on June 24, 2012
Taken on June 21, 2012