River Tay at Sunset

[brotherbede]

This is my first attempt at an HDR image so I thought I'd see what others thought. I've kept it as shot with no tweaking apart from the merge and I cropped off the rather uninteresting tree/bush foreground. The sun was setting to the west and illuminated the clouds to the south of my viewpoint on the Dundee Law. The camera was a Ricoh GX200 tripod mounted with no filters, so yes the sky really was that colour.

 

[wok64]

Very nice and subtle use of HDR. The bridge, the land in the background and the lower right edge could need a tiny bit of more contrast for my personal taste. Other peoples milage may vary. I assume they suffered a bit from the HDR contrast compression. But that's just nit-picking. A very pleasant image and always surprising what colours nature is ready to produce for us.

Best regards,
Wolfgang

 

[Blow-in]

Thank you for posting a HDR image - I was thinking this morning as I walked that I needed to do some HDR images too as exposing for a good sky was underexposing the foreground - your image has provided the necessary stimulus to carry a small tripod and the cable release.

Anyway, I like your image a lot although you may have some trouble getting everyone to believe the cloud colour (I do believe it though) as the human eye/brain tends to compensate and filter out the orange - worth sending to BBC Scotland for the weekly round-up of photographs?

Richard

 

[33dollars]

Hi brotherbede,
Did you merge three bracketed exposures or extract the HDR from a single image?.

 

[Gab]

Wow, impressive... it seems the arrival of a "of the other world" hidden force!

 

[Wiener]

Nice work! Shows the 'new' rail bridge off well, and the Kingdom of Fife beyond...GX200 still doing well!

 

[AlbertTRAL]

Interesting work! You have managed to pull away of the typical rendering of HDR colours keeping these pretty natural!

 

[brotherbede]

The image was created from 5 exposures. The first at the metered exposure and the others +/- 1 stop and 2 stops either side of that exposure. I merged them with Photoshop and the result, apart from the crop is what you see.

 

[petach]

if you look lower right, the cloud has melted onto a block of flats.

 

[Orol]

The scene reminds a giant funnel full of molten lava. So does the painting on the block of flats Peter just mentioned.

Peter

 

[thelps]

The scene reminds a giant funnel full of molten lava. So does the painting on the block of flats Peter just mentioned.

Peter

Its got a very foreboding feel to it, the red/orange downward vector could be an alien ship hidden in the clouds.. I watch tooo much SciFi! :lol: