The Sage of Shadowdale
Whale Beach rocks
2xp HDR tone mapped with PhotoMatix twice (once for the sky & once for the rocks) and blended in CS3, with the usual extra tweaks.
Fiddled with the sky a bit - wasn't happy with the gradient at the brightest area and in the end sampled the 2 colours on either side of the colour shift, added a grad layer going from one to the other, blurred it substantially (50px Guassian) and blended it in. But I'm still not happy with it - shifts too suddenly; still looks bodgey. :(
Oh well, moving on.
Whale Beach rocks
2xp HDR tone mapped with PhotoMatix twice (once for the sky & once for the rocks) and blended in CS3, with the usual extra tweaks.
Fiddled with the sky a bit - wasn't happy with the gradient at the brightest area and in the end sampled the 2 colours on either side of the colour shift, added a grad layer going from one to the other, blurred it substantially (50px Guassian) and blended it in. But I'm still not happy with it - shifts too suddenly; still looks bodgey. :(
Oh well, moving on.