HDR Sunset and Strobed Gazebo

The wind cranked all day. I was about the head out of work when I realized that the foliage was not moving around to hard. It was only blowing about 15 so I decided to try and go shoot something, anything. I drove around for a little without luck. Then the clouds over the horizon started to dissipate and I thought there might be a chance for a decent sunset. I headed over to this house with a gazebo that we always pass on downwinders in the Sound. I set up camp and waited. I grabbed a couple HDR shots because of the wide variance in exposures of the scene.

Sunset1_HDR
sunset2_HDR

Next I wanted to try to light up the gazebo with a strobe. So I hid one of my flashes (1/1 full power and the other flash on the camera at 1/8 power just to slightly light up the planks and railing.) behind a beam in the gazebo and stepped back and hoped for the best.

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