Once I a while I play with HDR, but not often. All images are art, and a such they each have their own beauty, but I don’t connect with heavily processed HDR images. This was a day where clouds would be a challenge; the clouds were low and flat and very bright, and it would be hard to retain much detail in the mountains while keeping the cloud exposure within reason. I did not have any split grads … [Read more...]

Balancing dark clouds with sunlight. In this view the black clouds had just enough detail to be interesting, but dark enough that even the slightest underexposure and the image would loose all detail in the clouds. The challenge was to expose the clouds so they look dark but have some detail, and at the same time not to over expose the sunlit portion of the image. I did not to use a split grad … [Read more...]