Portland Waterfront - a photo on Flickriver

            Waterfront Park and the Portland skyline just before dawn. Stitched and cropped from eight vertical images, the original is about 23000x4000.

Since I was shooting at dawn instead of dusk, the waterfront was lit primarily by the lightening sky (behind me) with the sun still below the horizon. This gave a very diffuse, even frontal illumination to the scene, save for the U.S. Bancorp tower on the right which was reflecting the brightest part of the sky.

I am not a big fan of HDR because even when you try to be just gentle enough to recover some color from the highlights--here mostly the sky and the city lights--it still ends up looking hyperreal. Or maybe I just need more practice with it.

Taken on: May 3, 2015

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portland

waterfront

twilight

Sets appears in: • Panoramas • Portland After Dark more » • Assorted Portland « less

Groups appears in: • pdx [portland] • Portland more » • panoramas • Dusk & Dawn - Sun below the horizon! • Portland Photo Geeks • The Urban Waterfront • Portland Oregon • Flickr River City • PDX Nightowls • City Dusk Moments (comment code available) • in explore « less

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