^ That's probably because you have the luxury of seeing light there (an exposure with the sunset exposed correctly has everything else as 100% black). You may be reacting to my processing which I now think was a little heavy handed on the foreground. HDR tends to do that if you're not careful because you can create images with much more tonal range than human eyes can see.

 

I think for that pic, the landscape should have been a little less exposed, but the water and sky are awesome!

 

Heres an HDR C&C please.

 

I don't know much about HDR but this image doesn't have high dynamic range...
highlights are clipped, shadows are clipped...not all that dynamic.

correct me if i'm wrong.

 

Well, its actually too dynamic...or is it?

The photos that were blended together were too far apart exposure wise, covering too much area with no good exposure resulted in clipped highlights and clipped shadows.

 

I guess the proper thing to call that image is tone mapped...

 

i feel like I've seen this pic before...do you know if you or your friend posted this shot on m3forum?

 

Overdone....

 

this thread is still going? But I will look at the bright side it could be about flare or even worse selective coloring

 

lol!