Location : This was captured at dawn looking over the weir at the end of Southwick Park Lake in Hampshire. There is a good strong flow over the weir due to all the rain we have had lately. I had gone there with Mark and Oliver to shoot the sunrise across the lake but prefer this earlier image which is almost an hour before the sun could be first seen through the trees.

I captured this image using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkIII camera and a Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L lens. I used Live View focusing at 10x on the weir. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/11, ISO 100 and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 11 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/30th of a second in one stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving of the HDRI file was all done in Photoshop CC. The HDRI TIFF was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro 5. Now back in Photoshop I did not like the HDRI sky so it was replaced the sky from just one image in the HDRI set. After picking one image and adjusting the RAW converter settings until the sky looked good and matched in colour, I then clicked Open Image. With the two images open in Photoshop, the next step was to drag the sky image and overlay it onto the HDRI. A layer mask was used with hand painting to just reveal the sky and its reflection. As a last step I used Nik Color Efex Pro 4 plug-in to polish it off!

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