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must be honest here in saying that i think i would rather see your effort in one of the ones that must be near perfect out of camera. The colour doesnt look right here ( calibrated monitor). I can see ppl enjoying the colour explosion but I was told that you shouldnt ruin a good photo with filters etc, and i think you may have a great shot here that doesnt need all this fuss.

Very nice HDR. So unnaturally natural Like it. The clouds look well defined even for a nine image shot. Shows very little movement. This has an obvious wow factor to it.

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Suvendra
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Hi Marvin, Nice composition with those clouds and reflections, but I do feel that the blues are just too false or over saturated or is this the effect of HDR as I have never tried this process. But I should imagine that you have got some lovely single shots of this image that would probably look fantastic on there own.

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Hello Everyone,

Thanks for all the great comments, much appreciated.

You are all too kind.

Ric.....Thanks for the comments, but I like it better this way.

Suvendra..........Photoshop CS3 does align the images so that movement in the clouds is minimized, thanks for the comments my friend.

Barry.........Thanks, don't know that I could get this effect with one image, appreciate your taking the time to view this and comment on it.

great reflections shot, very nice colors and love the clouds.

just wondering marvin, is your monitor calibrated ? I wonder how many people in this group have got calibrated monitors ?

My sort of image, nice sky, nice reflections and some nice light. I think I may have been tempted to throw the rule book away and gone for a central composition to make the most of the sky and reflections.

Hello Ken,
Thanks for the kind comments and for taking the time to view this one.

Hello again Ric,
My monitor is not calibrated at the present, if I were doing this for a living I would try to get it calibrated professionally. It is not an expensive monitor, but then the prices have dropped a lot on this hardware. I don't think many people have calibrated monitors and I find that there is a wide variance of the colors from monitor to monitor. The cheap software or Adobe calibration is not good enough for a pro for even those calibrations are not true. For that reason I tend not to critique colors so much, composition and sharpness but not colors because of that variance. I look at my work on my home monitor and compare it to my work monitor and there can be enough difference that I sometimes wonder.

Hello Miles
I thought about just what you suggested, but the bank of the lake was a little too close to give a central composition. Thanks a lot for taking the time to view and comment on this.

Marvin, always enjoy to see your nice image. Great to see you again, mate.

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Steven de Siow
Malaysia

very nice and i think it would still look wonderful if you desaturated a little. as Barry says, the blue intensity's too much. even so, that's quite an image.