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San Diego Skyline HDR 02

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EDIT: Per the suggestions of *FForns I have reworked this image. I used Photomatix 4 for the processing... The major difference is the hot spot on the blue light reflections has been cleaned up. I also did a perspective shift so that the buildings are straighter. Also, with Photomatix 4 I was able to get cleaner results on the far right, so I was able to crop less of the photo in the end.
All in all, I think the image is much better then it was...

Thank you *FForns for the suggestions and the Critique :D

EDIT 2: Thanks to FForns for getting a lot of the kinks out. I sent her the TIFF file and she worked her magic on it to make this a masterpiece :)
So to Fabs... Thank you so much :hug:

HDR Panoramic comprised of 5 HDRi. Each HDRi is 5 images -3ev to +1ev (25 images total).
Tonemapped in Photomatix
Merged together in PS
Removed noise with Noiseware Pro

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Image size
7661x2772px 7.17 MB
Model
NIKON D40X
Aperture
F/11.0
Focal Length
18 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Aug 12, 2010, 9:24:04 PM
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:star::star::star::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

I think it took a lot of work and concentration to do this HDR panorama, so a little more time in the post processing would be worth it. Sky looks beautiful
and very dramatic. The reflections are nice, but there are two hot spots on the twin blue lines under the bigger building.
If you don't have the detail in the original, you can always try and clone the hot pixels from the rest of the reflection.
Straigtening the perspective in Filter>Lens Correction or Edit>Transform>Perspective will do the image a lot of good. The leaning building looks very awkard.
As a final comment, the clipped light and the higher one very close to the right of the frame are very distracting. Clean edges are very important.
You have a lot of potential with a little more work.