Springs of light, springs of life - a photo on Flickriver

This is the result of one of my bracketings in that enchanted place, where the river Adda flows lazily in meanders towards the Padana plain. Actually, this is a result of a disaster - should have been the second of four shots to be assembled in a pano. Should have been... I have very little experience in panoramas - this would have been my second one, the first in HDR. But something has gone wrong - well, more than something, to be sincere. So I decided to retain at least the first two sections of the tentative pano, processing them separately. I will upload the first section soon.

A deep peace was all over the place, as the tones and colours were changing, slowly evolving towards dawn. The golden light was pouring from the edge of the hills like water from a spring and I was contemplating the wide range of greens just brushed by the first light. My thoughts were flowing in quiet flocks at the sluggish rhythm of the waters.
I could not avoid thinking of the beautiful introduction of Lucretius's philosophical poem De rerum Natura, where Love, personified by Venus/Aphrodite, is the origin of life and order (Lucr. 1. 4-9):

[...] per te quoniam genus omne animantum
concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis:
te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli
adventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus
summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti
placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum.

[...] for all of living things
Through thee [Venus/Aphrodite] alone are evermore conceived,
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun-
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
For thee waters of the unvexed deep
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
Glow with diffused radiance for thee!

(English translation by William Ellery Leonard from the Perseus site)

I have blended five HDR images derived from a 3-bracketing, -1.67 ev/0/+1.67 ev, generated and tonemapped with Luminance HDR 2.4.0 (Fattal, Reinhard05, Mantiuk06, Durand, and Pattanaik operators) Pattanaik contributed only to the sky; conversely, Mantiuk06 and Durand did not contribute at all to the sky, and some regions of those two images were slightly masked.

Luminance HDR 2.4.0 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
alpha: 1.86
beta: 0.90
Saturation: 0.69
Noiseredux: 0
fftsolver: 1
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PreGamma: 0.91

Operator: Reinhard05
Brightness: -0.2
Chromatic adaptation: 0.00
Light adaptation: 0.40
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PreGamma: 1.21

Operator: Mantiuk06
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.72
Saturation Factor: 0.72
Detail Factor: 1.6
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PreGamma: 0.42

Operator: Pattanaik
Multiplier: 364.75
Cones: 0.17
Rods: 0.7
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PreGamma: 0.97

Operator: Durand
Spatial Kernel Sigma: 98
Range Kernel Sigma: 9.3
Base Contrast: 5.9
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PreGamma: 0.48

Taken in: Italia / Lombardia / Brivio (show map)

Taken on: April 11, 2015

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Camera: Nikon D5100, f/11.0, 1/13 sec, 18mm (=27mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D5100
Lens:	18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.077 sec (1/13)
Focal Length:	18mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	ViewNX 2.9 W
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