Nubble Light Using HDR

HaveCameraWillTravel

Hi!

Back again after a somewhat long break. During the time, I played around with my camera and a popular HDR program. After getting the feel of it, I went to Maine. The result is this shot of Nubble Light with holiday lighting, done at twilight. This was shot on a tripod with a shutter release, at ISO-100, f5, with my Nikon D80, right on the rocks close to the waterline. Eight RAW exposures, one stop apart, from 15 seconds to 1/8 second were taken, then combined by the software - plus a lot of tweaking of the controls, to get this picture. Even though the cloudy sky appeared dark gray, the camera picked it up as deep blue - even after warming the color temperature to give a yellower glow to the incandescent lights. I will be doing more work with HDR, because now I'm hooked!



This has been added to my Maine Lighthouse gallery, here's the link:http://gonyeagalleries.smugmug.com/Nautical-Lighthouses/Lighthouses-1/12209334_hhc8E#870615808_27Nj4

Thanks for looking!

Art

rwells

Very nice processing, and very creative

NeilL

HaveCameraWillTravel wrote: »

Even though the cloudy sky appeared dark gray, the camera picked it up as deep blue - even after warming the color temperature to give a yellower glow to the incandescent lights.

Interesting. I think the proportion of violet light is greater towards night. This would also penetrate the clouds more. I wonder if this has convinced the sensor to produce this tone?

Neil