Deconstruction of a landing stage

[petemc]

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I was out last night and it was a nice sunset. Not great, but nice. However after taking 3 shots, running them through Photomatix and then through Photoshop somehow it became a stunning sunset. Look at those clouds! I don’t remember them being like that. Its incredible just how much detail Photomatix adds to the shot. This is the old landing stage at the Pier Head. They’ve got this barge with an 8 tonne weight on it. They drop the weight onto the old stage and thats it. I’m not sure whats going to happen after this but for now its a giant hammer smashing up parts of the old stage.

Camera: Canon 30D // Sigma 10-20 // Focal Length: 10.0mm // Exposure Time: 1/1000 // Aperture: f/7.1 // ISO: 100

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[photostar_1]

I'm looking at this from work, so monitor not brill, but bottom right and left corners really dark and can't see what's going on there. Agree the sky looks great. Often this fine detail is lost to our eyes due to atmospheric pollution.

[petemc]

Yeah they are a bit dark. Nothing really to see though. This was more beautiful sky, and silhouettes of the bits there. I suppose I could tweak them a bit. The straight from Photomatix HDR had all the detail but it wasn't what I wanted from the final image.

[Wile E. coyote]

Amazing sky Pete, photomatix does seem to find some hidden detail from somewhere, I've had a few do that also.

[Woodsy]

Very nice mate, Like it alot! Wish i had more time to go out and take shots

[Puz]

I like this but there's something about it that makes me think it's tilting to the left. Stunning sky and a little dark in places but moody all the same.