Peculiar Golden Sunrise

Peculiar Golden Sunrise

And now for something completely different.

This frame did not turn out anything like what we expected.  We have shot with the sun in the frame using HDR before, but this time, the extreme golden glow of the result surprised us.  We had expected more of a “normal sunrise” with tones grading from light to dark.  However,  the 7 exposures that makes up the HDR, all contain just 3 “tones”; Dark, golden sunrise and blown out (sun) in different parts of the frame (see below).  The HDR processing picks out the golden sunrise colour from each of the exposure and the result is what you see above.

Shot with the 105mm VR Micro Nikkor (a very sharp lens with high contrast) in RAW format.  7 exposures combined in Photomatix.

We are not sure if we like the result, but thought we would share our surprise and musings.

What do you think?

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For comparison, one exposure:

EXIF information
model NIKON D700
exposureTime 33/100000 s
fnumber f/11.0
isoEquiv 500
focalLength 105
24. March 2009, 00:05 details & comments (48) Posted in: Experimental, HDR The permalink address (URI) of this photo is: http://framedandshot.com/2009/03/24/peculiar-golden-sunrise/
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