HDR Gold Coast Skyline

dmanning11 · Nov 2, 2012

Well I decided to take a few shots up an down the coast tonight of the Gold Coast city skyline, I quickly realised that I needed to take HDR images to ensure I got all the detail.

Here are some of the results.

PS. Please plenty of C&C as its the only way I'll learn.

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

jfrabat · Nov 2, 2012

I like them very much. I specially like the contrast of subjects in #2.

PlanetStarbucks · Nov 2, 2012

Definitely a strong set of images. 5,6, and 8 strike me nicely. I also like 1, but have some ideas to make it stronger. I really like the feel of the city being diminuitive against the big black sky and the sense of space it gives. I think a reshoot with more sky maybe on a night with great cloud cover would really be strong.

dmanning11 · Nov 2, 2012

Yeah the clouds were not that great, I originally went to the Beach to take a photo of the Full Moon rising over the ocean, but there were some dark clouds out to sea, and it was completely hidden.
Shame there was no lightning.

Murasaki · Nov 2, 2012

No 2, No 6 & No 8, are the ones that draw me in, makes me miss Perth after looking at these.

leeroix · Nov 2, 2012

is that surfers paradise? #8 would have benefitted from a longer exposure... to make the water appear like glass...

dmanning11 · Nov 2, 2012

leeroix said:
is that surfers paradise? #8 would have benefitted from a longer exposure... to make the water appear like glass...

Unfortunatly it was rather windy so glass like reflections were simply not possible.
Most of the images are made up of a 1 sec, 4 sec, and 20sec exposure at ISO 400 f/4 or f/2.8