The sea awaits..

Dermis

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Sunderland Point. Lancashire. After the storm that flooded Cumbria. November '09.



 
Hello Dermis

This is very dramatic and exciting!.......It would make a splendid backdrop for a drama, like Wuthering Heights or Grace Darling for instance?

It's also a bit scarey!........Very well done

Bob
 
Many thanks to all posters. The kind comments are very encouraging.

The history of this place is fascinating. Google it!

Sunderland Point is now a very fragile place. It is cut off at high tide, and it is regularly flooded. Although grants have been given to protect the homes, and ingenius anti-flooding devices installed, they will not stop the rise of the sea. So the residents face constant threat. I tried to capture the feeling of this constant threat.

Thanks again for loooking. :)
 
I really like this picture and want to take some learning out of it:

1. How many exposures did you merge and what was the exposure difference (1 EV, 2 EV)?

2. What PP workflow you followed for the HDR? For instance merge, adjust color, adjust tonality etc?
3. How did you dramatize the clouds in PP?
Thanks in anticipation.
 
For HDR work, I normally shoot 3 bracketed shots + -2EV.

This pic was created from a single -2EV RAW.

The pic was exported to Photomatix from Lightroom as a tiff. I then adjusted the sliders until I was happy with the result. I then re-import to Lightroom as a jpeg.

I used a 0.9ND grad, to capture the dramatic sky, in camera.

Hope this helps. Good luck.
 
Oh so this is not technically HDR. this is a Tone mapped single RAW file.
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It is not a Merged HDR, true. I used a 0.9ND graduated filter to capture the sky, in camera.
It is created from a single tonemapped raw fie at -2EV.

Raw files have 12EV available, most of which you can't see, Jpegs have about 5EV.

I used the information from the raw to create this balanced (?!) image, so yes it is a high dynamic range pic. Who knows? Merged shots shots take time. During which, the wind blows, clouds move and trees move. The single Raw is a good solution to these fleeting ghosts.

I've examples of both 3 shot bracketed + -2EV merges, and single Raws, here....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49875617@N06/
 
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