{"id":1737,"date":"2010-10-28T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/28\/10282010-second-helping-of-fall\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T10:41:06","slug":"10282010-second-helping-of-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1737","title":{"rendered":"10\/28\/2010: second helping of fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the advantages of my travel schedule is that I get to experience extended springs and falls. Just as the foliage show is over in Maine, the last week in October, I always travel to Cape May, New Jersey, and, most years, the foliage in South Jersey is just at peak. Next month, just before Thanksgiving I will be in the Rio Grande valley in New Mexico. Fall is more variable in New Mexico than it is in New England, but about 3 out of 5 years, my visit catches the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande at their golden best. Spring is even more stretched for me, beginning in January in Florida, Feburary in Southern California, etc. I even occasionally catch Arizona\u2019s second spring in August. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This is, according to my map, Ludlum\u2019s Pond. Route 347, just north of where it comes back into 47 in Dennis, crosses the west end of it, and I have stopped several times on the way from Philadelphia to Cape May to photograph the foliage. This year the weather was chancy\u2026with rain, thundershowers, and even a tornado warning in effect\u2026but when I passed by the pond, it was no more than heavy overcast and a kind of watery light. With an HDR treatment, the weather actually shows the foliage to better advantage than full sun would have. Good thing, since that is all I had to work with.<\/p>\n

HDR, in this kind of light, allows for a richly textured sky, while keeping enough light on the foliage and reflections to make for a very satisfying image. IMHO.<\/p>\n

Canon SX20IS zoomed to about 48mm field of view for framing. Three exposures, auto bracketed, with the center moved down 2\/3s EV. ISO 160.<\/p>\n

Exposures blended and tone-mapped in Photomatix. My tone mapping in Photomatix is never extreme because I know I am going to do final processing in Lightroom: A bit of Recovery for the sky, some Fill Light, Blackpoint right, added Clarity and a touch of Vibrance, and Sharpen narrow edges preset.<\/p>\n

And here is a more open, wider angle view, of the other shore. Another three exposure HDR.<\/p>\n

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