A great shot Bruce
Looks 3D. I am thinking of upgrading to the E30
The 5 shot exposure bracketing certainly did a great job here.

Regards

Kiffin

Kiffin Miller wrote:
> A great shot Bruce
> Looks 3D. I am thinking of upgrading to the E30
> The 5 shot exposure bracketing certainly did a great job here.
>
> Regards
>
> Kiffin
>


Hello Kiffen...

Your E300 shots are great!! If you get the E30, you will really love the size and clarity of the Viewfinder and how fast the camera reacts to your commands.

It's pretty nice!!

See Ya...

.

Great job, this has something of a picture-book quality to it, I can certainly see that you wouldn't have had all the elements exposed well without the technique
Mike

very well done to be a HDR without tripod! I have tried that too (for being too lazy to set up a tripod) and I have never managed to get so good results.

Overall this is a bit too saturated to my taste but I like the composition and colours very much.

Well done!
pekka

The shot is excellent for what concerns composition, light and colours. There is an issue with the center-right top of the image, where the blending has failed a bit. It's especially visible at the border between the top part of the tree and the sky.

Alfred Molon wrote:
> The shot is excellent for what concerns composition, light and colours. There is an issue
> with the center-right top of the image, where the blending has failed a bit. It's especially
> visible at the border between the top part of the tree and the sky.
>

Interesting comments by all, here, thank you.

@Pekka - agree it's oversaturated and I did that on purpose to compliment the "better than real" look of the image.

@Alfred - I see what you mean about the sky in the area you pointed out. I also used a home-made gradient filter that I saved to an Action. I tend to over-use it and it _might_ have been that, which you noticed. I have one person who says whenever I use my home-made gradient that she sees a touch of green in the sky on her monitor (I don't see it, at home or at work).

And this particular shot is almost never done here in the evening because the sun setting in front of the camera, you have little hope of capturing detail in front of the mountains. It is, however, a popular sunrise spot, with the rising sun coming in over the photographers' shoulder.

Cheers to all....have a nice weekend!!

-= Bruce =-

Beautiful shot Bruce! As my wife said "Looks like a painting." Normally I prefer realism, but like this one. Pity my E-620 only allows 3 frame bracketing and up to only one ev.

Jim Padget wrote:
> Beautiful shot Bruce! As my wife said "Looks like a painting." Normally I prefer realism,
> but like this one. Pity my E-620 only allows 3 frame bracketing and up to only one ev.

Hello Jim.....appreciate.

Agree that most of the Olympus Bodies only went +/- one EV and that is not enough to unleash the magic of a good HDR set of exposures. I found that frustrating on my E-330, E-500 and E-420 as well.

The E30 also has a really wonderful large and bright opical viewfinder that puts the 'lesser' bodies to shame as well. What a welcomed difference!!

It's too bad there isn't an option in the Mirror Lock Up section of the E30 to do the following:

1> Mirror up
2> Delay (to let vibrations settle down)
3> Fire off all the exposures involved in a bracket sequence.
4> Lower the mirror.

Wrotniak points out the flaw here:

http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/43/e30-rev.html

And he is correct. This should be an option and I wish we could get Olympus to include it in a firmware update for the E30.

I also wish the E30 had a 'Viewfinder shuter door' like the E-330 has.

I do like the OVF info at the bottom of the frame better than over on the right. I thought after years with the other bodies that I would not like it...but I do think it's a better arrangement.

See Ya...

Unbeliebable what you can get from this lens!

Great vivid and sharp landscape.

Congrats.

Jes.

Wow! This shot is fantastic. So real, so "3D", so sharp. You really nailed it! BRAVO!