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Published: 2011-11-02 01:55:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 2962; Favourites: 93; Downloads: 1030
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Yosemite Valley with the Merced River in the foreground...Bridal Veil Falls is still flowing right at the edge of the shadow beneath the notch on the right hand side...This is four shots blended in the Dynamic HDR program...much easier to get those shadows right than in this single shot but now I've got to figure out how to get them all in focus (yes, I did use a tripod)
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Thank you so much! Yosemite is a fantastic place
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Yes, I hope to visit someday.
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thanks so much! Always an honor to be in your journal
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My pleasure, as always.
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I was so pleased with the way they came out 
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The colors on this are absolutely incredible! I love it!
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it was such a beautiful afternoon with the autumn blue sky
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That's a beautiful and magical shot. Love the colours and softness of some of the features here.
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thank you so much! I was very pleased with the layering here 
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Fair enough I must see it for myself someday
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it is an impressive place
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it was! The day was so beautiful - warm and clear...
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I especially like how some of the shadows got blue, it's the effect I\m actually going to try and achieve with my next landscape shots
Were your bracket frames focussed and only got softened after stacking together for HDR? I've seen some very crisp HDR tonemaps produced by Photomatix and if you use JPG exposures, Luminance HDR can also do some aligning and deghosting (e.g. trees are very hard to get right on a multi-exposure HDR since they sway in the wind).
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I like the blue too! Everything really was shadow blue
To be honest I didn't look at the individual shots - I had been using a spot meter/focus and just previous to these I was shooting vertical so I may have been off on where the focus point was - it does look like the bush and log in front are in focus so 
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Yessss another innocent soul being inevitably drawn towards HDR, nyah nyah
I think Photomatix is supposed to do the deghosting automatically, so you don't have to select areas where you want shapes from one exposure to have priority.
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If you prefer to stick with free software I can only say "Luminance HDR"
Is "Dynamic HDR" the full name of the program you use?
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Dynamic Photo HDR by mediachance.com I have the 2008 4.3 version, it was a purchase back then but I got a free download...there are newer versions but to get them I have to have proof of my original purchase, which I don't have
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Ah. Well, looks like it's Luminance for me then 
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ummm a half stop? I took five shots (two on each side of center) but didn't include the most exposed shot...
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I'm not an expert in any part of HDR type photography, but I use +2 0 and -2 and depending on the type scene here I would have shot a -3 on this one. Do you just change the shutter speed? In HDR photography your range should be quite high. Recommendations for the D300 are +2 +1 0 -1 -2. That should give you an 8 EV range and eliminate the dark spots.
Sorry if you already know this stuff, the photos are great.
Walt
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Wow, nice! It does look slightly blurry though, especially with the tree tops =/
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yeah...): learning more each time I do this...
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Gorgeous shot. You'd never know it was sitting on top of a supervolcano.
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My bad. It was late and I was tired and they both start with "Y".
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Believe me, you'll still feel the effects. Saw a show on it on (History?) and if it does go kaboom, the whole world is screwed.
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