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CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins

I hiked by a stream this past week.

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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins

    Last one just killed the whole thing! Bravo Don! Fantastic capture of light and framing is superb too! Others nice as well!

  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,319 Major grins

    Nice series, Don, topped off by that last one....a spectacular image.

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins

    Taz, Tom, thank you both.

  • JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,878 Major grins

    I agree with Tom and Tax on the last one. Nice.

  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins

    Thanks, Cristobal.

    Processing the last one was a challenge. It's a blend of three exposures. I don't like what HDR software does to the sun in shots like this so I blended them in Photoshop using luminosity masks.

    I learned one trick to use when the sun is in the shot from a book by Mark Muench. You take an exposure with a finger blocking the sun. Doing that increases the contrast in the rest of the shot. It had been so long since I took a shot like this that I forgot to do it here, alas.

  • El GatoEl Gato Registered Users Posts: 1,242 Major grins

    Very nice work Don.

    Love the leading lines and composition in the last image.

    Your processing skills are showcased in the final image. Very nicely shot and presented. IMHO.

  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins

    Gato, you commented on several threads and I appreciated all the comments.

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