LR HDR sunset....

First of all I'm not that great with landscapes, I have been working on getting more into it. This is a hdr put together with Lightroom CC's (LR6) new hdr merge feature. I was pretty excited to try it out. But I like the result. I didn't clean the image up a whole lot. But this was shot with Sigma's 15mm Fisheye on my 6D, handheld. Will reattempt this shot when I pick up a good ND filter and with my 24-105l. Any comments or criticism is appreciated. Thanks for looking.

Very nicely done.

kirk

Thanks Kirk.

How many exposures was it?

It was three exposure. First I tried was 4, with a 1 stop lower exposure. And it brought alot of noise into the tRees on the left.

I think it came out very nice. I'm really interested to try the new merge feature in LR.

Thanks, I've been waiting for lr to add it. I haven't wanted to pay for additional hdr software. Quick conversion and saves has a dng file.

Here is a LR HDR from 3 raw files - sunrise

Awesome shot Lance.

goldguinn86 wrote in post #17527861
It was three exposure. First I tried was 4, with a 1 stop lower exposure. And it brought alot of noise into the tRees on the left.

Surprising about the noise you've faced with your 4th exposure. I guess it was the "brighter one". Were you at low ISO even for this exposure? If so, it's not a good point for Lr HDR. A possible reason is that you did not record the whole tonal range of your scene, meaning you have to increase the shadows a bit too much.
From my experience, 3 shots with an interval of 1 EV give more or less what I've got with a neat development of a single RAW. And an interval greater than 1 EV often yields gap in the tonal range of the final image. So I prefer 5 shoots at 1 EV than 3 shoots at 3 EV.
Of course the number of shoots will depend on the tonal range of the scene.