Uninhabited Images
Available Light
Posted by Eric Fry (Houston, TX, United States) on 25 August 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
"All Four Winds together can't bring the world to me;
Shadows hide the play of light, so much I want to see.
Chase the light around the world,
I want to look at life in the Available Light"
"Available Light" - Rush
This one is from three exposures 1 EV apart. Photomatix recommends using a spacing of 2 EV, but my camera seem to overcompensate at those spacings, giving one good exposure, one completely blown out, and one almost entirely black. This is a fun program to play with, but I don't think I'll be doing a great deal of HDR work, as I can get pretty close in Lightroom for a lot of shots. I do like the details in the clouds shadows and the light rays, though. It will make a lot of extra work, as the photos need to go through Lightroom twice just for the noise reduction. It's a bit over-saturated, but I liked the enhancement it brought to the light rays.
There are a couple of blotches near the top that I tried to clone out, but I'm not too good at that yet. I didn't realize that the sea spray had gotten on my lens...
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you all have a great day,
Eric
Check out the photography of a friend of mine outside of Aminus3:
Brian Dykes' Blue Echoes Photography - Beautiful nature and city images from the guy that turned me on to Adobe Lightroom
dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States
a stunning and powerful image -- radiating with light and energy!! wonderful blue hues and lovely yellows and golds! beautiful detailing too -- nearly surreal!
25 Aug 2008 5:56am
@dj.tigersprout: Thanks, DJ! We had left the deck and were sitting on the beach throwing leftover pasta to the crabs and seagulls when this cloud passed in front of the sun. I had to run back upstairs, as I had left my camera and tripod on the deck from shooting the sunrise!
saeed from ahwaz, Iran
Its glorious indeed Eric! the colours and lights are really great and gorgeous! splendid shot and nicely done!
25 Aug 2008 6:56am
@saeed: Thank you so much, Saeed!
@leslie: Thank you very much, Leslie, I really appreciate it!
jamesy from christchurch, New Zealand
WOW!!! photo of the day for me. Being a beginner this HDR seems too complicated but man I like this.
25 Aug 2008 7:18am
@jamesy: Thank you so much, Jamesy! It really isn't all that complicated, as the Photomatix program does the hardest part, it's a lot like any other post-processing other than that. It's just really time consuming, especially when you factor in that I've redone this photo about 4 times! LOL. The more I looked at it, the more I wanted to adjust certain things in it, mostly the noise level and the saturations.
@Ana Lúcia: Thank you very much, Ana Lúcia!
Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
Wow, what a stunner, I'm with Jamesy on this, deff a fave of the day! So dramatic and the cloud really does have a silver lining:-) Splendido!!
25 Aug 2008 8:48am
@Linerberry: Thank you very much, Liners! I was stunned, too, when I started doing th tone mapping for the HDR; There was mo detail in the clouds than I could have imagined!
Francesc B. from région parisienne, France
Impressive and dreamy sky, Eric ! a good PP work.
25 Aug 2008 9:14am
@Francesc B.: Thank you so much, Francesc!
Namaki from Bordeaux, France
yes your time was worth it ! this is a very good photo !
25 Aug 2008 10:16am
@Namaki: Thank you very much, Namaki! I certainly feel it was worth the time to work with this incredible cloud.
@Dimitrios: Thank you so much, Dimitrios!
Kylie Greenan from Richmond, Australia
Lovely HDR image very well processed, great detai in the clouds and amazing light, very beautiful Eric.
25 Aug 2008 10:27am
Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom
First class image Eric, the work you have done is excellent, it looks as if the door to Heaven has opened, an epic inage.
25 Aug 2008 2:47pm
@Observing: Thank you so very much, Mike. The main thing I contributed was being in the right place at the right time to catch this beauty; the real work here was a wonderful gift to me that I'm so happy to be able to share with everyone.
zOOm from Paris, France
Great rendering... I've downloaded the free version too... incredible effect ! Well done.
25 Aug 2008 4:27pm
@zOOm: You'll really like it, and you'll wind up wanting the full version soon...
Thanks for the compliment!
Earnest from Oklahoma, United States
Beautiful work, Eric.... hmmm... maybe this one..
26 Aug 2008 2:25am
Marion from Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Oh wow, just jaw dropping. What an incredible vista. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
26 Aug 2008 2:46am
Volodia from Mississauga, Canada
This is spectacular, wow I don't think I ever saw anything like this.
Excellent shot.
26 Aug 2008 2:55am
Stephine from Honolulu, United States
Excellent shot!!! I can't come anywhere close to that! I only have one picture on my blog so far and it's nothing compared to this. I'm using a really cheap camera, but it's all can afford (I'm a gradutate student so money is tight right now). Seeing this really inspires me! Thanks for posting it!
26 Aug 2008 3:23am
COOLPIX P5100
1/1000 second
F/7.7
ISO 64
13 mm