Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm Lens | HDR Bracketed @f8.0

I know that we were just getting started on my Saturday photography adventure and I promise I will get back to it.  However when I left work this evening the light was such a soft beautiful yellow that I went looking for photo opportunities.

What I found was this pond with the growth all around and a nice wind mill right in the middle.  So I had no choice but to stop and shoot.  I did something I’ve never done before and that was to shoot an HDR bracket with out a tripod.  Actually it came out very nice.

So the image above is processed with NIK HDR Prof.  I have never really been satisfied with this plug-in for processing HDR images.

Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm Lens | HDR Bracketed @f8.0

This image is processed with Photomatrix Pro.  I find this program easy to work with and very intuitive.  After processing and tone mapping I was able to take it back into Lightroom 3 for the finishing touches.  Personally I like this image better than the first one.

Thanks for stopping by.  Back to the Saturday adventure tomorrow.  Enjoy the rest of your week and be careful.