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Sunrise -  Lawrencetown - Feb. 09, 2008. : Sunrise at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia. 

February 09, 2008.

Sunrise - Lawrencetown - Feb. 09, 2008.

banjon

Sunrise at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia. February 09, 2008.

Updated: Feb 10, 2008 10:52am PST

Sunrise,Sunset : Shot from Godde HIll , Palmdale CA

Sunrise,Sunset

CatahoulaCaptures

Shot from Godde HIll , Palmdale CA

Updated: Jan 30, 2008 9:38pm PST

Sunsets : Sunsets across the world.

Sunsets

GemImages

Sunsets across the world.

Updated: Jan 19, 2008 11:50am PST

Jan 8, 2006 : Owning & Displaying My Photos just got simple, 'Order My Photos' with easy clicks.

Jan 8, 2006

Richard Lazzara (shankargallery)

Owning & Displaying My Photos just got simple, 'Order My Photos' with ...

Updated: Jan 13, 2008 7:53pm PST

January 23, 2006 : Just order your photo from here now, this photo can be hanging in your home soon.

January 23, 2006

Richard Lazzara (shankargallery)

Just order your photo from here now, this photo can be hanging in your ...

Updated: Jan 13, 2008 7:41pm PST

Jan 18, 2006 : People find it simple and easy these days to collect my Art right here, just order the sized photo with the easy tools here.

Jan 18, 2006

Richard Lazzara (shankargallery)

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Updated: Jan 08, 2008 11:15am PST

Sunsets :

Sunsets

highanxietyfilms

Updated: Dec 19, 2007 9:55am PST

Sunrise 2007 : Thank you, for those using these 'easy tools' to buy My Photography here at Smugmug.
 Photography & Art by  Richard Lazzara, Boulder,CO. USA.
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Sunrise 2007

Richard Lazzara (shankargallery)

Thank you, for those using these 'easy tools' to buy My Photography he ...

Updated: Dec 04, 2007 2:59pm PST

Sunrise, Sunset, and Other Magical Scenes : God's Beauty painted all around us.  From my backyard to the Florida Coast.  Enjoy!

Sunrise, Sunset, and Other Magical Sc...

Debi Terrell (gracephotos)

God's Beauty painted all around us. From my backyard to the Florida C ...

Updated: Nov 11, 2007 8:40pm PST

Lamar St. Bridge sunrise - 7/14/2007 : Taken on the Lamar Street pedestrian bridge in Austin, Texas.

Eaaarly one Saturday morning back in July, I found myself wide awake just before dawn; being on a pretty messed up sleep schedule due to some long hours at work.  I took the opportunity to bicycle down Town Lake and catch the sunrise from the Lamar St. bridge.  I relaxed for a few minutes after setting everything up, then scrambled like mad over the next 20 minutes or so trying to get all my shots in while the colors were still interesting.  

When the last yellow was gone from the sky and the sun was over the horizon I packed everything up, rode back home, and went back to sleep.  I didn't so much look at a single picture until November, when I happened upon the set while sifting through my incoming directory.  I was pretty excited with the results, and spent the better part of a weekend cleaning them up and assembling a gallery.  

I ended up having to go back and do a second (or third) HDR of the first half of the set after learning some things while tweaking values later on in the first pass.  It's amazing just how much control you can have over every aspect of the exposure when tone mapping in Photomatix.  Even if it's possible to capture the entire tonal range of a scene in a single exposure, running three bracket shots through Photomatix increases the fidelity of the alterations considerably.  Even if it's possible to do this sort of thing in photoshop anyway, it's far more efficient (at least for me) to do it in Photomatix, and just do the final color correction/levels/noise reduction/sharpening in photoshop.  It's hard to imagine not doing HDRs for landscapes anymore.

Lamar St. Bridge sunrise - 7/14/2007

wendigo

Taken on the Lamar Street pedestrian bridge in Austin, Texas. Eaaar ...

Updated: Nov 04, 2007 4:28pm PST