Marina in HDR

[Rick50]

I also question the need of HDR in these photos. I think you'd get more "pop" by trying to shoot at a more appealing sunset and creating some dark shadows against the lights; it would create more mood to the photograph. There's simply too much blue/gray in these photos.

The ND filter turned out well, but watch excessive blur in the clouds, especially with bracketed photos.

I also have now learned how to get rid of the grainy appearance to hdr.

Could you please comment further? I'd like to know.

Here is the middle photo without any adjustment. Your welcomke to try it.
What I found in Photomatix is to turn off all the options like "Align source Images, Remove ghosts, Reduce noise.." and then don't make big adjustments. Also shoot 1 stop apart for images.

Good point on the clouds. I hadn't thought of that.



This should be able to be edited OK. As the sky gets darker then it gets harder and harder to deal with the dynamic range.

Here is a similar photo taken about 15 minutes earlier without HDR. I think it came out better here without HDR.

 

[Parker219]

Wow, I like the last photo the best! HDR would maybe bring out more detail in the rocks but the overall image composition is really nice.