San Clemente Pier Pano HDR - C&C Please

[3Honu]

http://ocpickle.smugmug.com/photos/385285819_2zzee-XL.jpg



Dodged version:
http://ocpickle.smugmug.com/photos/388343951_CNTxp-XL.jpg

[canonloader]

Wow, great shot and HDR work. I love this one. :)

[Bill Pham]

i like it :lol:.

Bill

[Avi]

wow!!!!
nice sky...

Avi

[82NoMe]

Awesome shot. Great Timing, Composure and PP...

[CameraBuff]

Very nice, great composition and those clouds just pop!

[FlexiPack]

very nice!

can i pick ur brains OCPickle? I've been trying a HDR pano, did you HDR each part individually and then merge to a pano or was it the other way around?

[3Honu]

This is a three exposure (0, -2, +2) picture. First I stitched each pano together then I did the HDR through Photomatix. The reason I did it this way was because I didn't want to do have to fight with different looking pictures once I stitched it together. However, I have never tried it that way.

[Anke]

Not too keen on the overdone HDR look but you can't argue that it looks dramatic!

[3Honu]

Not too keen on the overdone HDR look but you can't argue that it looks dramatic!

I understand. You are correct that it was meant to be dramatic and not realistic.

[Gum6y]

Its a great shot, good work, would love to see the original also before PM.

[donbga]

I think over all the image is a bit too dark. Some dodging of the middle ground would help, IMO.

Don Bryant

[3Honu]

Good point about dodging. I will see if that helps. (original post edited with dodged version)
Gum6y, let me see if I can find it.

[CameraBuff]

The #2 even looks better; you can see a small patch of green and the houses better. Nice job on the dodging.

[3Honu]

Camerabuff thank you. I might even boost the green up a bit to see what happens.

Gum6y, I don't have the original, sorry. Very bad on my part!