Well, that's probably not really what this rock at Point Lobos near Monterey is actually called, but it kinda looks like it to me. Shot during a most excellent recent coastal excursion with some Aikifam.
A techie kind of question... What I can't figure out, and because I see it often in HDR, is how you control the halo effect, in this case about the tree. It is a beautiful scene, and is the halo a result of the processing and can it be avoided? Ribbit
It DOES look like an aikifrog -- I didn't see it at the time. Very effective in black and white, and I love all the textures and the composition. BTW, what is IR, which Heather mentioned? @pixelchix
@hown The halo effect in most HDRs can be reduced to a bare minimum or none. Sometimes, however, it is at the expense of other adjustments within the software. Of course there are tricks such as layer masks in Photoshop which can bring back the detail in the halo as well. In this case, however, the "halo" was a result of odd lighting and strange foggy mists in the location, not processing. It could be minimized or edited out, by I rather like the effect Nature and camera created here.
