First HDR, Denver Sunrise

[J-Blake]

I was out shooting a sunrise last week and with no real intention to do an HDR took many exposures of several different shots. Here's what I ended up with. I have tried to get HDR shots before, but nothing successful, so these are my first. Though the individual shots didn't show it, the HDR images revealed quite a bit of dust on my sensor which removed, but I still a trace of in the first shot. All comments appreciated.

http://i315.photobucket.com/albums/ll479/j-blake/HDRs/HDR14b.jpg

http://i315.photobucket.com/albums/ll479/j-blake/HDRs/HDR9b.jpg

[IShootThings]

nice shots. is that a water park on the right?

[ManiZ]

Gorgeous. Good crop on the second one. Clone out the power lines and it will look even better.

[Gary McDuffie]

I like the color and crop in the second one, but am mystified by what looks like it could be a nearby planet or moon flaming its way to the northeast. Something is amiss here.

[007]

nice

[The_Machingbird]

Awesome! A local photo! And not a bad one, either. I like the crop on #2, but I like the IQ of #1. I've been wanting to take a Denver photo for a long time...I just haven't thought of the perfect location yet. That's a pretty nice one though, good job!

[J-Blake]

Thanks for the comments all. I'm pretty pleased with the way they came out. I can't say I know what I'm doing yet, because I've tried to replicate things to no avail. But I'll keep trying to learn.

[The_Machingbird]

How many pics were merged? And what merger are you using? Photoshop or Photomatix?

[J-Blake]

I made several merges, so I don't remember exactly but I think there were about 7 or 8. I had about 12 exposures taken for each, but my computer couldn't process them all and would crash at that number. I'm using photoshop to create the hdr with a photomatix plug in.