Grayscale version of HDR Challenge entry: [thumb]888817[/thumb]
Shot from the cart/pedestrian path overlooking the ninth green at the Tilden Regional Park Golf Course.
Merged from three exposures ranging from 1/101 to 1/636 second (base exposure 1/251 sec), plus two copies of the lightened exposure further modified with Curves, using EnfuseGUI.
-Tripod, timer
-Aperture mode, Auto-Exposure Bracketing mode
-Exposure Compensation -1 stop
-WB = Sunny
-Merge images with EnfuseGUI
-Clone out a little ghosting caused by motion blur of leaves in the middle, and stray branch at the top
-Some local Dodge/Burn to darkest foliage and calla flowers
-Clone in color mode on flowers
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Create artially-transparent mask over calla leaves
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curves to calla leaves through mask
-Create translucent semi-radial gradient mask for sky and trees near ridgeline
-RGB Curve to sky area through mask to correct "reverse vignette" effect
-Resize
-USM at 8%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied three times)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 276KB
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