Evening rays of sunlight

Submitted by admin on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 1:08am
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Evening rays of sunlight
Photographer Name: 
Ryan Gardner
Camera: 
Canon EOS 7D
Category: 
Landscape
Prize Level: 
Honorable Mention
Image Caption: 
Evening rays of sunlight dance through the mist of a recently-ended thunderstorm at the edge of a recently cleared meadow in central Vermont.
Lens: 
EF-S 18-55 IS
Technique: 
3 shots, 2 stop bracketing. Adjusted in Lightroom to correct for lens distortion and then merged to HDR in HDR Expose. After that, brought back into lightroom to tone the image to what you see here. HDR Expose was very impressive in its ability to bring the dynamic range of this image into what I was looking for and without introducing strange halos to the image.