The windward coast of O'ahu. This is shot from the scenic trail above the Makapu'u Lighthouse on the windward side of O'ahu. It's about a 1.5 mile walk each way and the trail is all paved. Easily accessible but the sun can be a B**** in the middle of the day.
3 shot exposure HDR merged/tonemapped in Photomatix and Processed in CS3
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Place: 71 out of 136 Avg (all users): 5.8182 Avg (commenters): 6.1250 Avg (participants): 5.6825 Avg (non-participants): 5.8938 Views since voting: 1017 Views during voting: 429 Votes: 176 Comments: 10 Favorites: 0
Initial impression: Colours are almost surreal, but especially with that sky looming overhead, I don't see why they couldn't be natural.
Technical: Very open and dramatic, like the pov with the cliffs appearing to vanish from underneath your feet. Not too crazy about what appears to be a lot of tonemapping on the sky, the clouds look a bit soft, and cliff to left looks almost a little flat by comparison to rest of image.
Artistic: Like the way you got the two islands at the thirds on the right. Good work on the colours, the richness of the water does not look overdone imho.
Overall: Nice picture, could be a postcard. I feel the voters objected more to the level of pp than anything else.
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