Dames Point Bridge Cradling Sun
This taken from south of Coast Guard Station on St. John's River (7 miles away). I used TPE to get the right spot days before hand (sun is heading north). This is an experiment. 9 shots 1ev (for high contrast HDRI used a Promote Control) apart @f32 (for depth) with a 55-250mm @250mm and cropped for 400mm effect (what my film camera showed @ 400mm), Have an old 500mm mirrored @f8 lens but camera only see's f00. The haze started to rise as the sun was setting (cool air warm water). The bridge is blocked by Arlington. PP with Photomatix 5 and Lightroom 5 (develop mode only) had trouble with Nik Software filters getting it just right.
![Full Moon, Supermoon, over Main Street Bridge Jacksonville Florida 06232013. Used the Promote Control 9 shots at .7 ev and Photomatix. It took 8 minutes and the moon moved about 4 times its size.This is toned mapped my hand in Photomatix (all presets [extras also] did not work) and used the Lasso tool to select exposure to get moon surface. Canon T2i EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS set at 55mm (=88mm) ISO 100 Shutter speed 3.2 (moon surface) thru 120 AV 29. This was total experiment had no idea what the outcome and was at the end of time for session, no matter what I did I could not get a shot of surface using normal +/-2 ev. Seeing the movement of moon just chuckled no way I will be able to use this but just playing in Photomatix and wow. real colors every other tone mapped photo the a lot of pink on bridge.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Jacksonville/i-rjqdzG3/5/994f4174/Ti/9%20tonemapped%20Photomatix-Ti.jpg)
Coast Guy
on February 17, 2021I really like the chairs on the beach facing the Milky Way. Great composition. Even the ripples in the sand cooperate as leading lines to the chair facing skyward. Excellent story here. Impressive sky.
Byron Fair Photography
on February 16, 2017Beautiful ED