Lover's Point - Pacific Grove, Ca.
Lucky shot. I include notes below as to how it happened.
This photo was taken on June 30, 2006 in Pacific Grove, California, US.
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Jany , portobello_belle, cybele-, Sam Lamp Photography, and 60 other people added this photo to their favorites.
patia (72 months ago | reply)
Stunning.
Jany (72 months ago | reply)
Great HDR! Congrats....
digitaldust (72 months ago | reply)
Nice... I want to be there.
T. Wurm (72 months ago | reply)
fantastic colors!!!!
Trishy Wishy (72 months ago | reply)
Beautiful!!!
SkyShaper (72 months ago | reply)
Very fantastic.............................Keep up the great work
dm144 (72 months ago | reply)
Depth, clarity, colors, and composition great. Super nice!
avasquez (72 months ago | reply)
beautiful, almost looks like a postcard...
Bob۞Who (72 months ago | reply)
Thanks, everyone!
Marcos Alexandre Beltramini (72 months ago | reply)
Magnific.....
Christiaan Leever NL (72 months ago | reply)
Wow! Love the colour! This is better than most of my sunset HDRs... :) Sunsets are perfect for HDRing due to the usual silhouettes!
C. Young Photography (71 months ago | reply)
Fantastic photo! Just, wow...that's a stunning HDR image!
Found you through the Technique group.
{pixelkeeda | पिक्सलकीडा} (71 months ago | reply)
Me too through Technique..
This is just a beautiful HDR u should also post the images used to achive this. It can b a collage of all pics in one. SO that ppl will know.
really gr8 photo.
Bob۞Who (71 months ago | reply)
OK. I'll upload visual aids with narrative to Technique Group now..
Thanks everyone. Glad that you enjoyed my lucky shot in the dark.
The visula aids:
www.flickr.com/photos/baronson/205705712/
The narrative:
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Bob۞Who says:
Per request regarding my last months posting: heres the narrative to Technique Group and Dakooo:
Heres the link to the photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/baronson/180083490
Its 8:36:50 pm on June 29, 2006 at Pacific Grove, CA 93950 Latitude: 36.61867 Longitude: -121.94065.
Basicly I was running 15 minutes late for a sunset panorama with my new pano mount......The pano sucked but this was the payoff instead.
Anyway I did not use bracketing because it was too dark to see the led so I manually shot three:
f4 1/60 -
f4.5 1/80 -
f5 1/100 .
This was a rush job in the dark, the sun was already gone. I can't justify my choices I was just grabbing what I could fast.
I fed these three into photomatix HDR 2.3 at the default HDR settings. It looked a bit pale to me ...I thought it was a typical cartoon.
Then, In photoshop, I hit it with Extensis Intellihance Pro 4.0 which lets you also process with default settings, which I did just for fun.
Its a new plugin I never used before. Beginners luck for sure.
I may have also tweaked it with auto levels/contrast/color in CS2 but I can't remember for sure.
Anyway thats when it suddenly looked special.
I should mention I did not shoot in NEF (RAW), Its all Large jpg and I stepped it down to 8 bit process as soon as I was in photoshop.The final image was 3008x2000 at 7MB.
Thanks everyone. Glad that you enjoyed my lucky shot in the dark
hkvam (71 months ago | reply)
GORGEOUS.
Thanks for the info on how you did this.
susan200 (69 months ago | reply)
Hi Bob,
I would like to ask permission to use a small version of this photo in my master's thesis on city planning. I'm new to Flickr and not sure how to find your email contact. Thanks,
Susan
Bob۞Who (69 months ago | reply)
Sure, Susan. As long as you credit me as the photographer and you're not selling or publishing the image you have my permission to use this image for your thesis including the additional copies needed for submission to various professors and colleagues. But let me know before you're published by McGraw Hill. I'd be interseted in reading you're thesis should it ever manage to be accessable in the school library. Are you at UCSC, CSUMB or MIIS?
ekin* (65 months ago | reply)
I lived two minutes from there for five years, and never was it so beautiful!
fjtyro (55 months ago | reply)
just went there, but I don't have pictures like this, beautiful!!!
dreamtiger (47 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called PlanetEye - travel beyond words, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
artist101 (44 months ago | reply)
purrrfect!
RyaninVa (43 months ago | reply)
that is an awesome shot! *sigh* I miss that whole area - my favorite place to be!
SeeMonterey (37 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called See Monterey, and we'd love to have this added to the group! We're dedicated to showing off the beauty of Monterey County. The incredible range of colors and crisp definition in this shot exemplify the beauty of Lovers Point!
V Taitano (36 months ago | reply)
You've got some great HDR shots of the Monterey/ Carmel area! I love the area and your shots give me some inspiration. Great job.
Monterey Explorer (35 months ago | reply)
Great Image!