LightningPaul

This is shot at the borders of the oceans on our planet. A totally hidden and unknown place on earth. I was extremely lucky to be able to visit this awesome but also weird place. You clearly see water flowing over. This happens when there is a bit too much water in ours oceans and seas. It flows into the planet to get recycled. If you think I'm kidding you then I have to say you are right :-)


TECH-INFO: one shot, RAW file. The water was lit very well but the wall was too dark. I used HDR techniques to rebalance the light. I do that by creating multiple exposures in DxO Optics Pro. At the same time it performs lens corrections and noise removal. Then I merged them into a HDR file with Photomatrix Pro. I tried the same in Photoshop but it doesn't work because I assume that the "exif" data is the same in all files. After tone mapping in Photomatrix I enhanced the contrasts in Photoshop. One of the changes is that I made the bottom part of the white wall a bit colder (less yellow, more blue color) and the top part a tiny bit warmer (it was already warm from the sun light).