Location : Purton, Gloucestershire along the tidal River Severn. The area of foreshore is known as the Purton Ship Graveyard after the intentional beaching of a number of timber boats beginning in 1909. Some 81 vessels in total have been beached over the years to help protect the eroding canal bank nearby.

This image was captured using a tripod-mounted infrared modified Canon 60D camera and a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II lens. I used Live View focusing at 10x on the wreck. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/11, ISO 100 and custom white balance. I then captured a series of 8 exposures from 1/15th of a second all the way to two-thousandth a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving of the HDRI were all done in Photoshop CS/5. The HDRI file was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro before the final clean-up and enhancement work was done back in Photoshop.

I like the extended dynamic range you can achieve in the infrared image by using HDR. Here I have kept detail in the sky as well as the dark boards of the boat.

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