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A lot of you will remember this shot. The HDR version that I submitted like forever ago had a DD, but an argument with mr hdr led to me deleting it.panorama of 4 shots, each blended from 2 shots.
400D,18-55m, hoya cpl
SImonsberg, South Africa
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this photo has been featured in my journal "FREE TRAVEL THROUGH THE LAND" thank you for lending your art to this project
luca
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It looks like somewhere from a Hayao Miyazaki film! This shot manages to has such a sense of action and beauty, with great clarity and composition.
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I still have the HQ version you posted up 
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I have featured this shot in my mountains-collection![link]
I hope you agreed!
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I'm not bashing HDR, but this one's much better.
okay, I am bashing HDR... 
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lol I'll buy you a beer for bashing HDR
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what argument?! i loved the old one, i was actually looking it in your gallery, that was the very piece that inspired me to go into HDR style images...
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Amazing shot again , I much prefer this over the HDR version , find HDR is way over done here on DA .
Would love to see it reshot with your mark II the detail would be insane . If im ever over that way deffinatly would like to photography this spot my self .
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It's actually quite sad because this is an amazing view ( as you can see ), but the surroundings of the mountain is some of the most expensive wineland property in the world. 600 hectares of it just sold for $160mil u.s . There's no access to the farmlands and this spot is the only safe place to pull off from a 4 lane mountain pass.
And fuck yes, HDR is extremely overdone, but a certain major and influential deviant encourages it.
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This is absolutely gorgeous. I love the greens. And I have to agree with what Gilgond said. This is better than any HDR photo because it shows how natural it is.
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This photo have been featured on Thumbs of the Week 58th .
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That my friend is a majestic view. Such a devine apperance by the mountain itself with the perspective shot at added by the little populated foothills.
Also the clouds gives the extra enhancements to make this a very strong and beautiful composition.
VERY good shot, one of my personal favourites!
/rob
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WOWOWOWOWOW... I don't even think I've ever seen anything like that with my own eyes... let alone been with a camera so I could capture it... Who's Mr. HDR??
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I still love this shot, I never realized you deleted the old one tho. HDR is fine as long as you use it right, and you most definitely are.
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This is incredible! It reminds me of a volcano... like the clouds are the smoke and lava.
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it's so unfair... Why is it that the best shots leave you so dumb with owe that you can't think of a single thing to say?
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Wow! How did you get the amazing tones and color?
And did you take the panorama in quarters?
Like 2x2?
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Let Johnny talk, his landscape photography isn't exactly as good as yours
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Great work! Would like to know how you blend your shots.
I've got my method but I'm not sure if it's the best one..
have a nice week!
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so many different methods...I'm still learning
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same with me
are you familiar with fred miranda's method?
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in my opinion that is not a good method. It is far too automatic and produces results similar to HDR
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i'm not really sure about it too. if the exposures differ more than 1 EV there remain halos around dark objects..I recently found another method but i'm not quite sure about yet..
have you got a better one?
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yes do it by hand with layer masks. I did start writing a tutorial on the subject, but I think instead I may well do a video
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yeah well I heard of it..but that's the editing work I don't like. makes me sick..and think you need a lot of time for that..don't know. maybe a video would be better..
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it can be time consuming, but most situations are very easy 5-10 mins
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Do you use a graphics tablet (if that's the correct term) or just a mouse?
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I use a tablet for complex masks (a £30 wacom) otherwise I use a laser gaming mouse from the olden days
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Yep, I thought you might... I'm looking at a larger wacom prob an A4 one. I used to use one around a mates studio but that was an A3 and huge money!!
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