Wow, amazing shot.

photography?????

YES. This is A HDR PHOTOGRAPHY GENERATED in PHOTOMATIX Software from ONE RAW FILE with different exposures...

Very beautiful continuous work they is marvellous and passes a beautiful weekend;)

Very beautiful !!!!

Magnificent scene !

The duck is part of the original file? Wow, what timing!! This is truly excellent. Very illustrative and painterly.

This is wonderful! A scene one could step right into.

Amazing shot!

Wanderful work!

Beautiful. HDR is a wonderful technique.

This is fabulous! You should send this off to Ducks Unlimited. This is an awesome image!

Beautiful! And I have the same question: is it the duck a part of the original file? Excellently done if it is so! :)

Great light and HDR work. impressive

Beautiful!

What a really great shot and processing.

A beautiul piece of work!

Well done

I also thought the duck might have been from a second file. The color and post processing almost makes it looks like a painting! Impressive image!

The landscape image and colours are beautifully processed..........but I'm not so sure about the duck.

I like this a lot and am amazed at the technique as well as the timing. Thanks for sharing. I will research some more on this process. Lee

Beautiful :)

Wonderfully!!!

I am really impressed, this is amazing work, love it very much, but I also have the question "is the duck a part of the original file" hope you got my IM and email

Quite an amazing tech here...I will have to investigated further if results like this can be achieved...well done~ Aloha~

Hello Everybody Firstly I would like to say: many thanks for all your feedback: comments/critiques and questions. My English skill about writing are not so good as my reading/understanding stuff but I really hope we do communicate somehow and Ill be understandable enough I start from the wanted exif info I must admit that Ive used old manual lens called PANCOLAR 1.8/50 MC Carl Zeiss Jena DDR on m42 so the exposure time and F number are from my head (they cannot be archive in exif file): exposure program: Manual exposure time: 1/1000sec F number: 11 ISO: 1600 The original file is very dark and noisy with bad cropping so that was my decision to heal it in some post processing: one raw file technique you generate 3 files with different exposure (eg -2EV, 0, +2 EV) and then you generate (e.g. In Photomatix) pseudo HDR image from one raw file of course Ive done a few other tricks for rise the image quality, colors etc Ive receive a lot of questions like: what is manip and what isn't? I know that is a hard question for many people, but in my opinion its very simple In the age of digital-cameras why shouldnt I use all the techniques that making my photography better? In the age of analog-cameras a lot of people was doing similar things in their darkrooms and that was fine and I really dont know why a lot of people living nowadays have this blind belief that we can do only for e.g. color corrections, cropping, noise removing etc A lot of us dont have private photo-studios, helping hands, greatest hardware, best lenses so what? Does it mean we should only do one click shot photographies? There are countless photographies with some removed unwanted leaf, persons skies with some added birds clouds etc, etc, etc Do we even know this? No why? Because we dont see this and that fit into the mold of our stereotypical thinking. I dont want to rise some war or something I just want you to know my point of view if all of you think I should put my photography in photomanipulations Ill do it but I cant apologize you because of this I wrote. There is a very fluent line limit between what is a photomanipulation and what isnt someone even wrote that for him HDR technique itself is already a photomanipulation. Why? This technique helps us to archive nature in hard-weather conditions better than any other So what is my definition of photomanipulation please visit my portfolio photomontage section (http://grzanka.pl/#id=photomontage&num=1) to see what I mean. I must stop writing because its an endless topic. I hope you understand a bit my point of view, I didnt want to cheat or insult anybody. The Duck is it real or is it fake? What if I say its real? Most of you still won't believe me until I prove its real. Why? Is it impossible to do something like that or is it impossible for me? And another hand: if I say is it fake and those who thought it was real do they start watching this photo in other way only because of the word? Why cant we watch photography and receive it by the eyes and heart not by the title and description ? And for the end: Im sorry but those who want to see the original raw file Im not sending/giving/showing to anybody my raw files its my copyright and something only for me so to be more secretly you can always see only the result photography. I hope you respect my stuff. Thank you all for that nice feedback Have a nice day Wojtek

This is truly amazing - like an oil painting! Amazing capture and your postwork is fantastic. Truly deserving of LWIG - congratulations. xx

So you did add the duck to the image? I'm not wanting to know because I feel it lessens the quality of your image, on the contrary! I'm asking out of curiosity and if you did, I think you did a fantastic job with it, it blends in really well! :) I'm no purist and to me it's the end result that counts and the end result here is certainly beautiful! Nice work!

Wonderful... like a true painting ! Congratulations for the selection of your image in the LWitG feature (Last Week in the Gallery week 19/2007) !

stunning results