Portland Waterfront
Waterfront Park and the Portland skyline just before dawn. Stitched and cropped from eight vertical images, the original is about 23000x4000.
Since I was shooting at dawn instead of dusk, the waterfront was lit primarily by the lightening sky (behind me) with the sun still below the horizon. This gave a very diffuse, even frontal illumination to the scene, save for the U.S. Bancorp tower on the right which was reflecting the brightest part of the sky.
I am not a big fan of HDR because even when you try to be just gentle enough to recover some color from the highlights--here mostly the sky and the city lights--it still ends up looking hyperreal. Or maybe I just need more practice with it.
Portland Waterfront
Waterfront Park and the Portland skyline just before dawn. Stitched and cropped from eight vertical images, the original is about 23000x4000.
Since I was shooting at dawn instead of dusk, the waterfront was lit primarily by the lightening sky (behind me) with the sun still below the horizon. This gave a very diffuse, even frontal illumination to the scene, save for the U.S. Bancorp tower on the right which was reflecting the brightest part of the sky.
I am not a big fan of HDR because even when you try to be just gentle enough to recover some color from the highlights--here mostly the sky and the city lights--it still ends up looking hyperreal. Or maybe I just need more practice with it.