You have burnt your CCD D:

Love the composition and the color of this one.

Thanks. I thought restricting the horizontal here hinted at vistas unseen instead of just showing em.

Argh! Symptoms? Prognosis? I know I do a lot of shooting into the light but it's been sunset light and I've always kept my exposure level down. Can you point me to more info on this? Looking but search terms keep pulling up non-relevant stuff.

I noticed the bright spot at the bottom of the sun as if the sensor was overflown with light, but I don't really know what it is. I got this kind of smear too when I photograph the sun with my old camera (Fuji S602). Hopefully it's not a permanent damage.

Ah ok. I took a look at the originals and what you're seeing is an effect of stitching three panels together. Phew! Reminder to self though, careful, that's a nice toy and you wouldn't wanna break it.

Kickass! This belongs on Deviant Art!

I've got mixed feelings about DA. It's top-heavy for code and I refer to it as the MySpace of art archives. I'd say that for me it's the overhead for the code mostly. See, being rural all I can get is 28.8 dialup (yep) so every bit counts. Then there was the scare about their usage policy, them keeping all rights and all that, I'd say that was more than a bit disturbing. Could be taken care of with watermarks I suppose. Who knows, I'm actually gonna finally get some wireless bandwidth out here and maybe then I'll make a concerted effort to get that happening.

I'll have to post the wide-angle shot of this view, still slightly leery of posting non-anthro stuff as I've pissed off my share of delicate snowflake artists in my time.

You could easily do an HDR type image with this if you use the tripod, or maybe you should get a graduated neutral density filter.

It's beautiful!

All my attempts at HDR have turned out miserably unfortunately. Haven't done all that many of them so far though. Should devote some time to getting it down. Any suggestions as to what sort of conditions it works best under?

Gods... I wince at what I missed. See, my partner called me with some urgency over to the far end of the cliffs. It unfortunately was no biggie, and by the time I got back to the top of the cliffs (my hips are well screwed up) the scene had changed. It's excruciating sometimes, knowing it's gone forever (or at least until next year!)

Even though this isn't HDR, I think it's still large-print worthy and worthy of a lot of cash, probably! I've never dols photos before so I don't know.

This is my first attempt at HDR;
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1326692/

There are some guides to using layer masks and stuff, which is how I did this one. I didn't figure it out until after I had already made that that I should have locked my aperture and only changed the exposure. That makes it a lot easier for consistency, I believe.

Ok, I was about to say that I usually can't see much difference between HDR and what I can bring out using software like Lightroom (is god!). Now though I'm seeing more of the purpose and how it's done. Ok, I'll be setting up the tripod and turning on the sun-lamp to get some good controlled exposures of oh what, how about my poseable Lola Bunny, Bugs, and my Ginger da Bondage-Kitty plushies. Hey, may as well make it worthwhile eh?

LOL Cool, and thanks for the watch! There's a tutorial for making them with GIMP;
http://www.instructables.com/id/HDR.....with-the-GIMP/

Moving clouds can be a pain in the neck, so can lots of moving people. The one I did, I took two shots at each exposure level in order to erase people from the scene. That guy in the blue shirt stood there not moving for the whole two minutes I was taking the shots.

I just posted my first good controlled HDR pic. Interesting.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1388411/