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Postby antman on Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:03 pm

This photo was taken at the Kalalau Lookout on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The lookout is over only one of the valleys of the Na Pali coastline.
I would have like to have had some more high level cloud but unfortunately it wasn't to be.

The image itself is a 9 exposure HDR processed with photomatix. Shot with D200 + Tokina 12-24mm (at 12mm).

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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:06 pm

What can I say Geoff - picture perfect, a beautiful shot and well executed in HDR :)
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Postby !~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! on Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:08 pm

that is an absolutely stunning image...well done
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Postby Wocka on Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:46 am

Very, very nice I like it.

I think you need to get that printed.

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Postby antman on Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:19 pm

Thanks for the comments.

I wasn't quite sure as to how it was going to turn out when I took the pictures but I am very pleased with the end result.

Currently have put it up as my desktop background and plan to print a large canvas of it.

Here's another from a slightly different perspective from earlier in the afternoon.

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Postby fishafotos on Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:24 am

Great shot. Well done on POTW.
Any chance of seeing one of the individual exposures? Just to see what kind of light you were dealing with.

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Postby Pehpsi on Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:55 am

Do you need to change settings manually, or are the exposures set with bracketing? Keen to do a HDR myself :)

Great work by the way..
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Postby Killakoala on Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:01 am

yeah, nice :) You've nailed this one. I would have preferred less sky and more foreground though. That doesn't detract from your image though :)
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Postby Oscar on Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:17 am

sirhc55 wrote:What can I say Geoff - picture perfect, a beautiful shot and well executed in HDR :)


What Chris said. Well done.

Cheers, Mick :) :) :)
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Postby antman on Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:17 pm

Thanks guys.

Harry, here is a composite with the 9 exposures:

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Pehpsi, I just used bracketing with a 1 stop difference between the exposures. The important thing is to keep the tripod as still as possible. Unfortunately I didn't have a cable release for the slower exposures.
The images were then combined with the photomatix program (I think you can get it as a trial). I then imported the resulting image into photoshop for a bit of a tidy up.
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Postby Pehpsi on Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:21 pm

Awesome, thanks mate. Will i need to shoot JPG, or is RAW ok?
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Postby antman on Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:55 pm

Thats a great question.

I shoot in RAW and had been converting the files to JPG before using photomatix. But I have just tried the program again it does indeed recognise Nikon RAW. Its also has Canon/ Fuji RAW and TIF listed as other file formats recognised. So its looks like you've saved myself a step.
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Postby -=Monty=- on Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:49 am

Ah mate, i know exactly where that is. Amazing place, isn't it. I went there last year. Was amazing.
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