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On a trip to SE Qld last weekend for a mountain biking race at Kooralbyn I had a couple of hours spare and decided to re-visit Natural Arch. I last went there over 20 years ago, before all access restrictions were in place, but the dynamic range of the scene on a sunny day was way too much for slide film.
I figured this would be a perfect test for Photomatix, which I had downloaded a couple of months ago, but not yet tried.



D200 + Sigma 30mm @f/8 and 4 exposures ranging from 1/8 to 1sec. Photos taken with a cloudy sky WB, but I have added a bit more yellow as the sky reflection on some rocks was rather blue.

comments and suggestions welcome

Nicely done Gordon, it looks natural which isn't always easy when doing HDRs, you've done a good job, with a challenging scene.

Knowing the spot Gordon I can say that you have done very well. This is better than most HDRs I have seen from the same spot.

Thanks, I was surprised at how easy it was to get a natural looking image, having seen some of the excessively colourful HDR images around.
I think it gives a reasonably good representation of how it appeared to my eye.
I was crouched down on the platform with the lens looking through a gap in the fence, whilst hordes of Japanese tourists milled around. I had a quiet chuckle to myself as in the middle of the chatter in Japanese I heard one say "ahhhhhh professional"

Gordon wrote:I was crouched down on the platform with the lens looking through a gap in the fence, whilst hordes of Japanese tourists milled around. I had a quiet chuckle to myself as in the middle of the chatter in Japanese I heard one say "ahhhhhh professional"

I can picture it now.

Beautiful, looks great and very natural. I know what you mean about the colourful HDR's. Composition is perfect too i think.

Excellent shot. Really looks natural and well expose

Gordan, this is very well executed nice balance and no false colouring. On a side note, I see Rob has bagged his 34th comet.. no hope for the rest of us now

yea, it will be hard for anyone to catch him! I found another one the other day too, but it didn't look like a comet at discovery, so its another Comet Siding Spring. Rob later added 6 X 60 sec exposures of it together in very good seeing, and it had a bare minimum of coma visible even then.

Thought I was going to have a clear night tonight as it cleared at sunset, but lots of cloud/fog forming already ;(

Wow fantastic colours.......looks great and as others have said look natural.........well done!

Dan

Beautiful! A competition winner! If only you had a water babe under those falls!