Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Passing Lane


Truck passing by at 70 miles per hour, (113 kilometers per hour) on highway 10 heading into St. Cloud, MN. HDR image taken through a dirty windshield.

15 comments:

Olivier said...

original comme HDR, c'est vraiment bien fait.

HightonRidley said...

Nice one Rob, not too saccharin allowing the great quality of the light to show.

Compositionally, I like the way the red of the truck is balanced by the red of the car in front. The diagonal lead-in lines of the trailer give it a dynamic feel and the sky is gorgeous.

I can't see any sign of a dirty windshield so I guess you were able to clean that up in the digital darkroom?

A great shot. Nice!

RogerB said...

Nice special effect - working this photo was a long shot, and it paid off!

PeterParis said...

The speed report is one thing, but I really like this photo, for its composition, the colours, the clouds... Just perfect! :-)

Sharon said...

This is very impressive! Your shutter speed must have been very fast.

Dan J. said...

The colors are amazing. I love what you do with HDR.
I know this drive like the back of my hand. Is that clearwater coming up on the left?

Thérèse said...

How come a dirty windshield? lol
Such a great picture!

db said...

This turned out really great. Nice work.

Don and Krise said...

The reds against the ominous looking clouds is awesome. Great work on this one.

Miranda McAfee said...

Tricky... HDR in a moving vehicle of moving vehicles... Master!

Bob Crowe said...

Really good use of HDR but I hope you didn't take this while driving. Now that I think of it, that would be really tough to do from a moving car unless you used Photomatix on a single image.

Lowell said...

Very impressive...how did you get three pics in rapid succession at different exposures?

Rob said...

Actually, this was from a single "RAW" photo. In Lightroom, I created and saved 3 files by changing the exposure value; -1, 0, +1. Then in Photomatix, I generated an HDR from these 3 images I created from 1 photo. Continued post processing in Photoshop Elements.

Babzy.B said...

great shot !!

Mandy said...

I can't believe you took that through a dirty windshield. It is a marvelous photo. Do you need a special camera or film to do HDR?