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Le Mont-Saint-Michel is a very unique place in the world, just like Venice and a few more.
It is highly suggestive by day, kudos to its powerful and daring structure; plus, it is surrounded by a long shore when the tide is low and becomes an island when the ocean reaches the high tide. At night, the wonderful lighting really leaves the visitor without words: it feels like being into a dream and in the real world at the same time. On the tech side, the light dynamic was too wide for any sensor or film. So I took five exposures, bracketed from -2EV to +2EV, and one more "mean exposure" shot, I extracted two exposures from. The five bracketed exposures were merged into a HDR image that I tonemapped twice: the first time I exaggerated the lights. This enhanced the colors of the sky and saved some detail in the shore areas and in some of the darkest spots of the rooftops. The second tonemapped image was aimed to preserve the color tones and the correct amount of light in the lightest areas. The two exposures extracted from the sixth shot were merged into a DRI image, that showed some underexposed and overexposed spots, along with a somehow flat contrast. The three resulting images were finally merged together, masking each image as needed to have realistic colors, good contrast and the correct exposure for the white spots in the abbey, while preserving details even in the darkest areas. Comments
 unforgettable picture! looks like a dream with all those colors...
i was wondering how you achieved such an effect and then read the detailed explanation: thank you so much for this. really useful. and thanks for this beauty - makes me wanna go there immediately   -- member of :=TreesClub  came out really good.. which is good considering the amount of work that went into it! Kudos!
-- ------------------------------------------------------------ People's opinions are just that, opinions, make sure your opinion is the one you take the most heed of. thanks man. yes it required some hour of work at home
-- Don't take life too seriously. It's not permanent. thank you olija (i hope i remember how your name is written
).the whole process involved obviously some trial-and-error, but it was interesting and i learned a lot about masking -- Don't take life too seriously. It's not permanent. yeah
you really do the most amazing about it - it doesn't remotely remind hdr or anything! just a wonder  the place itself is already a ... i don't know - enormous beauty - but i've never seen it captured this way. really fantastic-- member of :=TreesClub the blending of several hdr and dri renderings helps in avoiding unnatural colors, but allows the widest light dynamic range possible. the result is very realistic, but believe me, the image cannot return but a small fraction of the emotion the real view offers.
thak you again for your appreciation  -- Don't take life too seriously. It's not permanent.  Wonderful light and reflections. Nice shot!
 -- "Taking photographs…is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself…it is a way of life." –Henri Cartier-Bresson thank you my friend, also for the
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