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I would have love to see someone go into this shot on the lower right side but they all feared for their souls to be frozen into my Lumix L10... So i had to compensate with a more pushed tonemap look!! : )

There is no mixing true HDR and single Raw HDR or 2 different HDR here. It's from 3 pics once more. -2, 0, +2 as usual.

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Thanks all for the feedback!! I haven't got time for photography lately so what do i do.. i post old pics that have never seen the light!! : )

Even if i wish for the composition to be a bit more complete on future pics i had great feedback from a few friends and contacts about my workflow on dynamic range images and i'm very happy about that. Espacially when it comes from others that have grately inspired me through the last year or so!!

I've tried many ways to process pics to get a natural yet pushed tonemapping!! I've mixed single raw and normal (numerous diferently exposed photos) hdr pics but it never looked quite "natural".

So i've found that i should spend less time in Photomatix and more in Photoshop.

So here is a bit of my workflow:

1-First i take at least 3 photos making sure the lowest value pic doesn't have burned highlights and in the highest value that the shadows become midtones. To try and get plenty of details in every area of the pic.

2-I blend those 3 unmodified RAW photos in Photomatix.

There is no specific recipe there but here is the one i used for this photo:

Strength: 90 - Saturation: 75 - Luminosity: 10 - Smoothing: the middle button (but i usually use a higher smoothing so halos don't appear).

Micro-contrast: 10 - White point: around 3 - Black point: around 0.2 - Gamma: 1,25 - Micro-smoothing: 8.

I leave the rest for Photoshop.

3-In Photoshop it always depend on the photo so for this one i did the following things:

The image came a bit underexposed from Photomatix but that way i didn't get halos and burned highlights so:

Shadows and Highlights:

In Shadows: Amount: 3.

Levels: RGB mode: 4 - 1,05 - 249

Brightness and contrast: Brightness: 3

After that i applied a curve cause i wasn't quite happy with the contrast but the photo was a lot brighter.

A apllied a Curves layer: Linear contrast (presets) at 50% of opacity.

Filter: Sharpen: Unsharp Mask: Amount: 60 - Radius: 15 - Threshold: 10

I played with Hue and Saturation with the "Blues" to get a darker sky and "Yellows" for the color of buildings.

Did some dodging on the buildings so it would be a bit brighter and to increase the contrast with the sky.

Applied a Noise reducer plugin (Imagenomic-Noiseware Pro).

Did a bit of lassoing to reduce those parts with too much "Cyan" around the buildings.

Finally i used a Nik Color Efex Pro plugin/Tonal Contrast to boost the tonemapping and sharpness without creating halos.

I don't remember the exact amount but i applied it on a different layer and reduced the opacity around 25%.

So that's about 95% of this shot.

That may seem a lot for those who only blend into Photomatix but it took me around 20 minutes.

The before and after results are really worth it!!

Cheers!!! Hope this comes in handy to someone!! : )

Sunsets Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico by Tommy Farnsworth

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Sunsets Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico. Never ending and always unique. Sept 2023

#mazatlan #mexico #sunsets #pacificocean

#photography #travel #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes #landscape

Lagoon Sunrise Mazatlan Mexico by Tommy Farnsworth

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Lagoon Sunrise Mazatlan Mexico. Waking up each day to varied displays of amazing morning clouds.

#mazatlan #mexico #mornings #sunrise

#photography #travel #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes #landscape

Let's fly home, mate ☁️ #clouds #cloud #cloudporn #weather #vsco #iiframe #lookup #sky #skies #skyporn #cloudy #instacloud #instaclouds #instagood #nature #beautiful #gloomy #skyline #horizon #overcast #instasky #epicsky #crazyclouds #photooftheday # by Jainish vig

空間 by Mikunian883

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一瞬でもいい

Glowin by LS -

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Stormtroopers by Martin Juřík

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My very first try to capture lightning.

Lovely weather - Abshine story #clouds #cloud #cloudporn #skysnappers #weather #sky #skies #skyporn #cloudy #skyart #nature #beautiful #gloomy #skyline #horizon #overcast #instasky #epicsky #crazyclouds #photooftheday #cloud_skye #skyback #insta_sky_l by abshine love

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Mammatus clouds (Thanks to Sandy Manwell for the Edu) by Om

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It's the hurricane season here in Florida so it tends to get very rainy here everyday and cloudy. But typical of Florida, @ one moment it's complete gray and dark and then suddenly sky clears up and vice and versa. I have been on high sunset alert, looking @ the clouds to clear up a bit and then run to capture some sparkling sunsets . Today I gave up and thought it was gonna stay grey. When I looked after i was done doing some work, it seemed like sky opening a bit so I took my camera and went outside for Salvage captures :(. This was one of the most incredibly shaped clouds, lot of small bubbly head clouds. Never seen anything like this before. I don't think the pics tell you the complete story but it was incredible and 15 minutes later the sky turns into Burning Heaven :)!!!

Mammatus clouds on Wikipedia

Cloud Explosion! by John Wood

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I am really looking forward to meeting a bunch of you guys at the HDR workshop next Sunday!

This is one of those "arm out the car window" HDRs, you cannot let clouds like those go to waste!!

hope you guys are enjoying a relaxing weekend..

step brothers. by waspmeat.

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in the night.

Sunset Mazatlan Mexico by Tommy Farnsworth

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Sunset Mazatlan Mexico.

#sunset #mazatlan #mexico #photography #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes

eppure sentire #clouds #cloud #torino #weather #lookup #sky #skies #skyporn #cloudy #instacloud #instaclouds #instagood #nature #beautiful #gloomy #skyline #horizon #overcast #instasky #epicsky #crazyclouds #photooftheday #cloud_skye #skyback #insta_sky by massimo ankor

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Moody Morning Clouds Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico by Tommy Farnsworth

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Moody Morning Clouds Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico.

We often get these sorts of mornings during the summer rainy seasons.

#mazatlan #mazatlán #mexico #mornings #sunrise

#photography #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes

Stormy Day Sunrise Mazatlan Mexico by Tommy Farnsworth

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Stormy Day Sunrise Mazatlan Mexico.

It was a bit of a cold and stormy day, temps in the 60's, don't laugh, its all relative, ha! But beautiful skies at sunrise. I think of the fishermen out there and how they see all this glorious sunrise.

#sunrise #mazatlan #mazatlán #clouds #pacific #crazyclouds

#photography #travel #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes #landscape

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