Inspiring Photo: Jacksonville Beach Pier

Jacksonville Beach Pier - Early Fisherman

Uploaded: March 08, 2007

Comments

Margo L. Mizell March 08, 2007

Beautiful work, Jon. Lovely composition and lighting.

How exactly did you make the water look so silky? Amazing. #617544

Jayne Martin March 08, 2007

I love this comp. #4034972

cheryl m. phillips March 08, 2007

Beautiful, Jon!
~cp #4034980

Larry Smith March 08, 2007

Beautiful, very nice done! #4035548

Mary Anne Frey March 08, 2007

Love the color of the water! #4035655

Janine Russell March 08, 2007

Jon, excellent colors, detail, exposure, lighting and point of view. #4035828

Harry E. Pherson March 08, 2007

Nice use of the HDR technique. I have used it also on one of my pics and love the effect. I have found that this technique does not work on everything but here, it has done very well. Nice shoot........ #4036347

Helen N. McHugh May 08, 2007

Excellent POTD, Jon! Congratulations! #4258852

Bill Houghton May 08, 2007

Beautiful shot Jon. Greatb job. Congratulations. Bill

Bill Houghton Photography #4258911

Anna Diederich May 08, 2007

THis is just beautiful Jon!! Congrats on your POTD11 #4258982

Sharon Seaward May 08, 2007

Congratulations on your photo of the day! I love the lighting and the soft dreamy effect! #4259294

Holly Hitchcock May 08, 2007

Congratulations, Jon. Awesome image. Line, color and texture contrasting are all just great! #4259623

Cherie Herrle May 08, 2007

Very beautiful..congratulations #4259688

May 08, 2007

So beautiful! It pays to get up early for a shot like this! #4259905

Colleen Farrell May 08, 2007

Wonderful shot--beautiful colors in the water (I'm guessing that's due to processing for HDR?). Congratulations on a great POTD! #4260165

Fax Sinclair May 08, 2007

Aloha Jon, I have to put my three cents in here -- Fabulous! Fabulous! Fabulous! #4260545

RC Fritz May 08, 2007

Great job Jon. Congratulations! #4260595

Jon H. Waters May 08, 2007

Thank you very much, everyone!

Colleen: Yes, the colors are from the HDR merge. Thanks! #4260620

Patricia Ronan May 08, 2007

Beautiful image! Congrats on your POTD:) #4261119

Mary Clarke May 08, 2007

Congratulations on POTD Jon, lovely image #4261329

Evy Johansen May 08, 2007

Beautiful image, Jon! Big congratulations on your POTD! #4261969

Donna La Mattino Pagakis May 08, 2007

It pays to get up early, this is gorgeous!! Congrats! #4262066

Steinar Kibsgaard May 08, 2007

> Thank you VERY much for telling us about the technic, but what does your describption mean:
> What is HDR, what does "mean exposure means" (not everybody is
> english and some are newbees)
> and so on:
>
> "shot this as an HDR, so the EXIF data is only from the mean exposure"
>
> Thank you
#4262245

Jose Maria S. Tan May 09, 2007

HDR techinique have produced a lot of powerful images around the net. You'll just have to learn the basics and get to know when to properly apply it is the way to go at least for me.

More of my Thailand Photos
#4263539

Steinar Kibsgaard May 09, 2007

Well, thank you, but HDR - the letters - must stands for something, but nobody will tell me (crying loud), so I try Google :) #4263634

Steinar Kibsgaard May 09, 2007

Google is your friend.

It stands for High Dynamic Range, and it is something about shooting ex. 5 photos with 5 different exposures and then combining.

How to do that?: Do not have a clue :)

But as mentioned "Google is your friend" #4263657

Jon H. Waters May 09, 2007

Hello everyone.

To shoot in HDR, you can do it with varying amount of exposures. I personally use three.

First, you'll need to steady your camera on a tripod (or something else sturdy). It also helps tremendously to have a cable release.

Second, set your camera to bracketing mode. I use increments of 2 for exposure compensation.

Third, you need software to combine them. Photoshop can do it, but Photomatix seems to do a better job. Photomatix can be purchased at $100 from www.hdrsoft.com, or $30 if you are a student (I have a .edu e-mail address, that let me get the discount).

If anybody needs any help at all please send me a message! #4264372

Steinar Kibsgaard May 09, 2007

Hallo Jon

Beautifull photo, and now I know what HDR or - as it often is called I just learned at Google - HDRI -really is.

Just started with raw some days ago, and there is plenty to look after here, but thank you - maybe that will be the next when I am raw-educated enough :)

My favourtie setting (D200) is:

Appterture mode but at the same time D200 offers you (in same setting-mode in the display) to set the meter as a shutterspeed, as if you were shooting in Manual, and there you can set over (+ev)or under (-ev) zero (changing the shutter), so I think this is the same as bracketing ?? #4264490

Allan L. Dy May 09, 2007

Excellent Jon. Congratulations! #4265307

May 11, 2007

Amazing! The water looks like heaven, and there are perfect touches everywhere -like the fisherman, the moss, the light on the wood. #4272621

Renata Gusciora May 12, 2008

Wonderful work!So surreal to me.Congratulations! #5913878

To discuss, first log in or sign up (buttons are at top center of page).

Get Constructive Critiques

Did You Know?

Discussions by Category: You can view photo discussions on various themes in the Community > Photo Discussions section of the site.

BetterPhoto Websites: If you see an orange website link directly under the photographer's name, it's totally okay. It's not spam. The reason: BetterPhoto is the one that offers these personal photography websites. We are supporting our clients with those links.

Unavailable EXIF: If there is no other information but 'Unavailable' in the EXIF (meaning no EXIF data exists with the photo), the 'Unavailable' blurb is not displayed. If there is any info, it shows. Many photos have the EXIF stripped out when people modify the image and resave it, before uploading.

The following truth is one of the core philosophies of BetterPhoto:

I hear, I forget.
I see, I remember.
I do, I understand.

You learn by doing. Take your next online photography class.

You & 6

Love It!

Copyright for this photo belongs solely to Jon H. Waters.
Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.
Log in to follow or message this photographer or report this photo.

My Profile

My Photo Shows

My Photos

My BetterPholio

My Messages

My Courses

Comments

Get Constructive Critiques

Did You Know?