Cub Lake

Most of my processing lately has been using exposure blending and creating as natural a look to what I shot as I am able. As such, I've been posting more and more in the Nature and Landscape thread. But here's a recent shot from Rocky Mountain National Park which I purposefully took over the top, just to see if I still could do it. You never want to forget your roots. Hope you like it BIll!

Good shot. But,a little less on the vignette and fix the halos in the tree area.

Jon, "...using exposure blending and creating as natural a look to what I shot as I am able..." has just as much reason to be posted in the hdr forum as it does in the nature and landscape forum. By exposure blending manually rather than let a piece of software do it for you allows you to have complete control over the final results. But no matter how it is achieved, the goal is still to have an image that contains a higher dynamic range than it would in a single exposure.

Please continue to post your images here as well as the 'nature...' forum so others can appreciate what hdr can do to improve their images. I admire how much you've improved your skills since you first started posting here and always enjoy your work.

Now, having said all that...I wish the clouds weren't so blue/purple in the shot above. Maybe you could make it look a little colder.

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Thanks guys for the comments and feedback. The idea of this processing was to make the image surreal. I may not have pulled it off well, but that was the intent. The halo and sky were intended, but like I said I may not have pulled them off.

Gene, thank you very much for the compliments about my photography over the last couple years. You know I have the utmost respect for your photography and post processing skills, so coming from you makes them all the more special.

Point taken on posting here. I'll keep it in mind in the future.

I don't think you've gone that far over the top.
Its dynamic but real.

I like the original better than Navydoc's edit. I understand what Navydoc is trying to do,but it loses too much detail.