The setting sun paints the sky beyond a cornfield in northern Illinois. A blended shot of two exposures - one for the sky and one for the cornfield - blended in Photo Shop. Poor man's HDR.
An earlier attempt at shot blending can be found here.
More on my photo blog, Points of Light.
This photo was taken on August 5, 2007 in Lake in the Hills, Illinois, US.
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Az~Kate (59 months ago | reply)
fascinating effect! ;o)
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This is really beautiful...nice touches and colors!!!!
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Works well!
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Tomitheos (59 months ago | reply)
excellent layers of colors and the angle is great!
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Jack Hindmarsh (59 months ago | reply)
Great processing.
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Beautiful
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Hidden-In-Shadow (59 months ago | reply)
amazing
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Great shot...nice composition.
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Very nice.
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Great perspective i love it.
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wow ! Great colors!!
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Amazing!!
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Impressing colours.
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Great sky and photo composition!
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Excellent work!
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great colours and leading lines!
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slimzaidi (59 months ago | reply)
the sky is brilliant in this!!!
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gr8 exposure. lovely colors.
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anindya c (59 months ago | reply)
great hdr
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Fabulous work. I love what you did with the colors of the sky. great!
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very well done!
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Joy C. (59 months ago | reply)
Very nice capture!
Ed Karjala (59 months ago | reply)
interesting and effective contrasts of light and color
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Esteban_Soria_fotos (59 months ago | reply)
wow ! excellent!
fatminky (59 months ago | reply)
I wondered how the light could be coming from two directions. The effect works well to create a dramatic shot.
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Pedro Ribau (59 months ago | reply)
congratulations, well done
domfell (59 months ago | reply)
the wonders of photo shop. anyway great pic, well done
Lisa-S (59 months ago | reply)
Beautiful.
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Angela n Alabama (59 months ago | reply)
fabulous
Iuri Fernandes (58 months ago | reply)
Perfect, what a effect!
Mrs Magic (58 months ago | reply)
This is brilliant, a really good example of HDR. Well done.
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Aurora Monkey [deleted] (58 months ago | reply)
Great job. That is really beautiful.