Sierra Madre Surreal Sunset - a photo on Flickriver

            We get a lot of great sunsets down here in southern California, so I figured I'd try various different ways of capturing them.  I don't do a lot of HDR, and it's definitely best when tripod-mounted.  But since even my current pocket camera can exposure bracket three shots in less than a second, and I didn't have a tripod on me at the time, I thought I'd give a hand-held JPEG, small-sensor HDR sunset image a shot.  You do what you can with the tools you have on you.

And yes, this camera does do in-camera HDR.  But it is entirely automated, and the manual mode does not work with it.  So it only produces acceptable results in certain situations, and a high contrast sunset scene like this one is not one of those.

Three-shot, hand-held HDR, taken with my Sony HX9V, small-sensor superzoom, merged and tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 4.2.

Feliz Quarta Sunset – Happy Sunset Wednesday, everyone!

Taken in: United States / California / Sierra Madre / Sierra Madre Canyon (show map)

Taken on: January 26, 2012

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Photomatix

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Los Angeles

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Sets appears in: • Sunrise, Sunset • California Dreaming

Groups appears in: • Discover Los Angeles • QUARTA SUNSET - Sunset Wednesday. more » • Magical Skies (Invite only) « less

Camera: DSC-HX9V, f/8.0, 1/125 sec, 4.3mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	DSC-HX9V
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	4.3mm
ISO:	100
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	QuickTime 7.7
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