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Goodbye Fort William Part I (HDR) (20)
tomszat Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 103 W: 27 N: 224] (1104)
I spent the last 14 months living and working in Fort William, Scotland and it was a very good period of my life, especially because my daughter was born during that time and also because of my great love to the local landscape. I am moving to other place soon and I'm going to post some photographs of Fort William area collected over the time as a way to say 'goodbye'. I think I will miss it...
This shot was taken just few days ago from 'Cow Hill' looking towards Fort William and Loch (lake) Linnhe. I don't create HDRs too often, but in this case I think it helped to capture the full range of colours of this vivid sunset. I used 4 RAW shots with different exposures combined into one HDR.
Thanks for any critiques,
regards,
Tomasz
Altered Image #3

tomszat Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 103 W: 27 N: 224] (1104)
Horizon straightening
Edited by:Silversnow Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 184 W: 58 N: 371] (1426)
Rotation to adjust the horizo;
A brightness and contrast increase;
A tiny saturation increase.
Altered Image #2

tomszat Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 103 W: 27 N: 224] (1104)
Original - Long Exposure
Edited by:tomszat Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 103 W: 27 N: 224] (1104)
This is another sample to show one of the shots used to create the HDR image, this one is with longest exposure.
Altered Image #1

tomszat Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 103 W: 27 N: 224] (1104)
original single shot
Edited by:tomszat Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 103 W: 27 N: 224] (1104)
This is an example of how the single (non HDR) shot of this sunset looks like and hopefully it will help Mr. Leonidas2008 to understand what sort of contrast we're talking about here and let him see the difference. Anyway I can see landscape details in the HDR version, maybe it is time to adjust your monitor settings Mr. Leonidas? No offence, peace!
Regards,
Tomasz.