Nor'easter Howling
by mainer

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You might want to take that comment from Ubique and frame it with the shot. That is high praise! I felt the same way about many of the other entries, but he says it perfectly.

Dancing on the Keys
by MinsoPhoto

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A top 10 and a new #2 on your personal hit chart! Woo-hoo!

Vrksasana and an Old Tree
by Coley

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Another win, and a well deserved one!

L'Heure Bleue
by Germaine

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Lovely simplcity.

Reflections
by MaryO

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Wonderful Heron pic. Don't you love/hate getting the perfect shot a week too early? I have a ton of shots from my vacation that would have been perfect for midday sun.

IMG_8527-1
by Eagle40Fox2

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Great job for a first effort, much better than my own. That being said, as far as a photo, it's not grabbing my interest much. Some of it may be the purpley pink colors, some may be the composition overall. The items of interest seem to be along the bottom of the frame, with the top half of the frame mostly black. There is also that blur in the top right, that looks like a reflection in a window that you were shooting through. Perhaps an additional exposure could have pulled in some moreof the highlight detail inside the building. Maybe, maybe not. It's a very wide dynamic range, even for HDR.

My own workflow in HDR is to shoot three bracketed exposures, a full 2 stops apart, in RAW. Since each RAW file contains (to my understanding) roughly 2 stops of dynamic range, this gives me the maximum range in my captured set. I use Photomatix lite to merge them. Even though Photomatix can import the RAW files, I convert to 16 bit TIF. A major reason is that Photomatix does not let me adjust the white balance before it does the merge. Adjsuting the exposure level for each TIF also gives me more control over how light or dark my merged exposures will be. The documentation for the program also suggests doing it this way.

O! Say Does That Star Spangled Banner Yet Wave
by eaglebeck

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What is the sound? Flapping noises of the flags in the breeze? That's my assumption...

...phouw...
by goc

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Wonderful shot, with perfect DOF for the subject. However, without the title, this image would not have suggested any sound at all to me.

GIVE ME MY COFFEE!!
by Jutilda

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Ha! The title is exactly what I was thinking as soon as I saw the thumbnail.

Abo
by Yo_Spiff

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Originally posted by tome: No artifacts on my office monitor... thought you'd be glad to know :).

Originally posted by Kelli: Lovely! I can't see any artifacts (which is probably why my scores always suck!).

Originally posted by Germaine: What artifacts?

See, I'm the only one anal enough about compression to see them. If you look around the high contrast edges of the sky surrounding the towers, there is a little bit of pixellation visible from compression.