Sandstone Falls, late afternoon.

The last morning of my West Virginia #motocamping trip I rode out from Oak Hill to Babcock State Park and spent an hour photographing the Glade Creek Grist Mill before heading back towards Ohio and home. This is one of the most photographed structures in the Eastern US, and while it's always beautiful I knew that the extremely sunny conditions were going to prove challenging when it comes to getting a good exposure. The point, it was going to be really difficult to be able to bring out both highlight and shadow details in a single frame, so an HDR composite can be a good workaround.

Now, I tend to think that overly vivid HDR images have been really badly overdone the past few years, so I try to keep mine as close to the natural color as possible or even to mute the colors somewhat. The fatigue is, if anything, only getting worse as we now have all this AI crap and fancy Lightroom presets that you can buy online to give a color representation that just wasn't actually there. People are noticing of course. I hope that my images come across as more accurate to life.

The first image was as close in color to the baseline image the camera captured as was possible while still pulling out a lot of shadow detail that was lost in the original capture, particularly in the rocks. The second image is the same scene but with muted colors and enhanced local contrast in order to show off the textures. Of the two I prefer the first, but the second definitely has a certain appeal.

All open source software chain.

Composite capture, five bracketed images.
Nikon d3400, Nikkor dx 18-55mm zoom @ 36mm.
ISO 100, 16x neutral density
1, 2, 4, 8, and 15 second exposures at f25
Raw images converted to tiff in Darktable
Composite HDR created in Luminance HDR
Levels and sharpness settings applied in Gimp

Girasoles al atardecer | Sunflowers at sunset.

#sunflowers #sunflower #landscape #landscapephotography #sunset #sunsetsky #sunsetskies #nature #naturephotography #naturephoto #landscapephoto #landscapelovers #summer #hdrphotography #clouds #SunsetClouds #photography #photographer #photo #photographylovers #fediphotography #mastodonphotography #photographyonmastodon #picoftheday #photooftheday #sunsetcolors #summersky #HDRphoto @photography

La lune mais en hdr
Assemblage de 15 images à différentes expo
Prises au sony a6300 + tamron 70 300
Assemblage sous Photoshop et traitement captureone
#astro #astrophoto #astrophotography #moon #moonphotography #lune #hdr #hdrphotography