Landscapes - Glasshouse Mountains

[CraigVTR]

A few shots I took last Saturday evening. I am looking for a slightly different angle to shoot the mountains from what is normally seen, do these work? All except the 1st shot,were taken using a grad nd filter and bracketed exposures the two portrait shots were blended from two separate exposure. I tried the hdr route in pscs2 but it gives a very ordinary result.

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When I turned around this is what I could see.

[MATT]

Craig,

3rd and 4th are wonderfull.

They way the 3rd colours change from the night sky to grass..

MATT

[Justin]

I think your technique is fantastic, it's producing spectacular results.

Composition I am not sure about - 1st, the blurry wire is sort of distracting, the 2nd, is a picture of the fence because the mountain is the background (perhaps a portrait view?) and the 3rd the post pops out of nowhere so to speak. Just my first impressions.

[CraigVTR]

Thanks for the comments guys I prefer the portrait crops myself. I achieved the effect I was after with the graduation of colours up to the black sky. In the coming weeks I will be trying to shoot some more of the mountains from different vantage points in the North, South, East and West.

Here is one more slightly different composition.