Early morning activities... Lugging a camera bag.

Hi Everyone, 

Ok, so there are these days when I just wake up early - I know - who does that on a Sunday??? 

Well, the long story short is - I have been meaning to get a nice shot for my headers, both for the blogs and web sites and any other thing where I might want it. 
Now, I didn't want just any old image, I kinda wanted something special - and something that shows off Temecula and Murrieta in a good light. 

If you are a photographer, you know that we sometimes favor the early morning light (hence - getting up early). A while back I found this great location that overlooks my town, and thought about a nice panorama from up there. 

Alas, this morning, I did the 20 minute hike up there, camera bag and tripod in tow and set up to shoot some nice images. 

My thought is that I will run the images I got this morning through the HDR process (High Dynamic Range), you know, the kind with rich colors and piles of details...

So, I got the images, next up I have to work on them... Good luck with time for that one - but for one, I am happy that I got up at o'dark thirty and hiked. I think this falls into the category of what I will do to make myself look good... Hmm - that just sounds wrong.

 

Have you done anything like this? Is it crazy? Oh, yeah, as soon as I process it, I will show the results to you.