Okay, so we got in a bit of trouble this morning taking this picture.
To our surprise, you need a memo to take pictures anywhere on base. We were originally thinking the rules were the same as on any other base (pictures of anything but the flight line and the front gate are fine). Imagine our curiosity when the base police came 🙂 We photographers are always getting into trouble! I never would have thought taking pictures was such an issue when I originally decided that I wanted to get a photography degree.
In any case, before we were asked to leave 🙂 we got our picture! I decided to take four exposures so that I could do an HDR later when we got home. I think it turned out wicked. I used HDR Efex Pro, which I finally purchased today. It’s the best HDR software that I’ve used, so it was well worth the money. I used the program to make two versions of the image, one for the sky and one for the foreground. Then I blended the two.
I also did a lot more effects, tonal adjustments, curves, saturation changes etc. I wanted to give it a painted feel.
Here’s the final product…
Rosie Warner 