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Beauitful rich colors over the canal at the Hungryland Preserve in Jupiter, Florida. HDR tone mapped using Aurora HDr software by Macphun.
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This is a panorama created from 5 sets of 7 exposures due to the extreme dynamic range present in the scene. The waterfall at 22m is actually much taller than the panoramic projection would give one to believe. There was direct sun hitting the water and patches of moss, but the bottom of the waterfall was in deep shade, hence the way I went about capturing this with HDR technique.
For the lower segment I have rotated my circular polariser 90 degrees to capture rather than remove the rainbow - I also shot the same with the orthogonal setting, but didn't bother merging that in - so some of the glare from the lower rocks remains just because I was lazy.
I found myself adjusting my bracketing range as I moved up the waterfall - I believe this was because I was refocussing as I went up else I wouldn't have had everything in focus even at f/11 (and with a 10-stop ND filter, I simply couldn't see to focus without either removing the filter, or bumping up the live view exposure compensation more than 4 stops, and likely forgot to put it back before taking the next bracket), rather than to overcome any limitation with dynamic range 7 stops would probably have been plenty.
which I learned is not. The result was lightroom refusing to do an HDR pano blend, so I merged each set to DNG, then merged these into a panorama, and it all worked fine as lightroom still made the necessarily exposure adjustments.
Processed with AuroraHDR, Luminar, and finally Photoshop (with Lumenzia).
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Here is a scene from along the bayou nearby. A lot of wildlife lives here, in fact, I could hear a boar thrashing around not far from me.
I've driven by here but never really noticed the vibrancy of the greenery. Maybe it was produced by the soft even light from the overcast sky. Whatever the reason, it was enough for me to pull over and captured it with my camera.
While I stood in front of the car taking this, a fellow walking his dog came along and asked what I was taking a picture of. He thought maybe I had seen a boar, but I told him I was just impressed by the scenery of the bayou. He seemed to ponder this for a minute and then, agreed that I was on to something. He then proceeded to tell me stories about the boars and the local trappers. I suppose that's how you make small talk in the bayou.
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I'm watching a Netflix show called Tales by Light (www.netflix.com/watch/81030985?trackId=200257859). In episode 2 of Paradise in Peril, they mention that we now believe mangroves sequester more carbon from the atmosphere than rain forests. Holy smokes!
That's a pretty amazing fact, and all the more reason we need to protect mangroves and allow them to thrive along our coastal communities. In Florida, we have strict laws regarding mangroves, and it's for a good reason. If it weren't for mangroves, much of Florida would have been washed away centuries ago.
We have a lot of mangroves here and see them pretty much anywhere along the water. I took this at Emerson Point one afternoon back in November. I usually look for different perspectives across the water, but now it seems I've been missing the main character all along; the amazing mangrove tree.
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A cold, clear night at the ranger station. The streetlight was unexpected. One reason for renting places like this is to get away from streetlights.
Old Condon Ranger Station. A U.S. Forest Service rental in Flathead National Forest, Montana
This is a revised image from what I uploaded yesterday (I replaced the previous version which looked too HDR-ish). It is a shot of the entryway of the Union Covered Bridge in Missouri. The bridge, which has been restored, is closed to everything except foot traffic. Construction was completed in 1871 and spans the Elk fork of the Salt River on the Paris to Fayette Road. It is the only surviving example in Missouri of a covered bridge utilizing the doubled Burr Arch truss system.
Our car was parked in the parking lot just to the right of this scene. I left my wife sitting in the car while I hopped out to take some pictures... fortunately, she was somewhat patient with me because I was gone for half an hour (or more)!
The image is HDR (composed of three bracketed shots) and the result is a blend of AuroraHDR and two Lightroom versions of the images using Photoshop. I've noticed recently that I spend a lot more time adjusting curves in Photoshop for contrast and light/shadow definition than I used to do... and I sometimes go back and redo the images even if I have already posted them. Anyone else doing that or is it just me???
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The colors are here in the Northeast, so a few days ago, I drove to this random park called Cunningham Falls; it turns out it's not so random.
I don't know the area, so; I picked a random place to visit on Google Maps. Little did I know this is a popular spot because there were a lot of other photographers that showed up as well. I took all kinds of shots from different angles, including this, which is a twelve-shot panorama.
The scene consists of twelve shots, four groups of three that I processed in AuroraHDR, and stitched in Lightroom. The result is a very high-resolution landscape of a not so random Maryland park.
Here is another photo from Nice France. I took this as I walked around the streets above the harbor on a hot August morning.
The hill above the harbor is steep, and I remember thinking to my self that I didn't want to get too hot first thing in the morning. So I paced myself and took slow steps, trying to avoid exertion. That was a fool's errand because I quickly became covered in sweat no matter how slow I walked. I ended up getting ice cream for breakfast to cool down. That's just how I roll.
Nevertheless, I prefer to walk around these little streets as opposed to the more famous beaches of Nice. Beaches I have all around me in Florida, so when in Europe, I like unique places like this; even when covered in sweat and eating ice cream.
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Gorgeous colors after the sunset over the Loxahatchee Slough in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. HDR image created in Aurora HDR software by Macphun.
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Albert Bridge, RIver Thames, London. December 29, 2015. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian
The image was processed in Adobe Lightroom and MacPhun's Aurora HDR.
If you'd like to try AuroraHDR, have a look here: macphun.evyy.net/c/216172/245591/3255
It goes without saying, Big Hunting Creek is big with hunters. However, the only thing I was hunting for was a waterfall.
In fact, I was looking for Cunningham Falls State Park. As it turned out, it's just up the creek, which I eventually got to, without a paddle.
This is a long exposure that I made using a tripod and an aperture of F-22. It's a good thing it wasn't windy; otherwise, the leaves would have come out blurry. Scenes like this are gratifying for me, and exactly why I love photography in the first place.