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PSteven wrote in post #19095600
I took 3 exposures for this shot but ended up only blending 2 as the result from 3 was really awful. I have used Nik Efex Merge to HDR Efex Pro. To be honest all the presets don't look that natural to me. This was prob the most natural. I took quite a few photos like like this (3 exposures) but have struggled to blend them into something good which is annoying as it was a stunning looking morning to my eyes.

Any advice on blending exposures would be gratefully received.

The location is Marlborough, near Salcombe, Devon, England, UK

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Your finished shot looks superb!! Very well done!

Nice farming shot

Inspeqtor wrote in post #19095629
Your finished shot looks superb!! Very well done!

Really?! Cool - thank you very much!

PSteven wrote in post #19095600
I took 3 exposures for this shot but ended up only blending 2 as the result from 3 was really awful. I have used Nik Efex Merge to HDR Efex Pro. To be honest all the presets don't look that natural to me. This was prob the most natural. I took quite a few photos like like this (3 exposures) but have struggled to blend them into something good which is annoying as it was a stunning looking morning to my eyes.

Any advice on blending exposures would be gratefully received.

The location is Marlborough, near Salcombe, Devon, England, UK

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Nice work. Looks good to me. Personally, I'd probably have it a bit darker but that's just us as individuals.

LeeRatters wrote in post #19095755
Nice work. Looks good to me. Personally, I'd probably have it a bit darker but that's just us as individuals.

Thank you Lee. It is great to hear it doesn't look awful. Hard to judge your own processing some times especially when it ventures into HDR territory

PSteven wrote in post #19095600
I took 3 exposures for this shot but ended up only blending 2 as the result from 3 was really awful. I have used Nik Efex Merge to HDR Efex Pro. To be honest all the presets don't look that natural to me. This was prob the most natural. I took quite a few photos like like this (3 exposures) but have struggled to blend them into something good which is annoying as it was a stunning looking morning to my eyes.

Any advice on blending exposures would be gratefully received.

The location is Marlborough, near Salcombe, Devon, England, UK

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Did you try just fooling around with one shot? Lot of latitude in raw files these days. Either raising the shadows in the darker photo, or lowering highlights and brightness in the sky of the brighter photo? Can't really tell if you would have lost any detail in the sky of the brighter photo. Anyway, your finished photo looks good.

patrick j wrote in post #19095785
Did you try just fooling around with one shot? Lot of latitude in raw files these days. Either raising the shadows in the darker photo, or lowering highlights and brightness in the sky of the brighter photo? Can't really tell if you would have lost any detail in the sky of the brighter photo. Anyway, your finished photo looks good.

Thanks Patrick. Yes I did have a go with just one photo at a time but it just didn't seem to get me any decent results. Happy the combo is getting good feedback tho.

PSteven wrote in post #19095600
I took 3 exposures for this shot but ended up only blending 2 as the result from 3 was really awful. I have used Nik Efex Merge to HDR Efex Pro. To be honest all the presets don't look that natural to me. This was prob the most natural. I took quite a few photos like like this (3 exposures) but have struggled to blend them into something good which is annoying as it was a stunning looking morning to my eyes.

Any advice on blending exposures would be gratefully received.

The location is Marlborough, near Salcombe, Devon, England, UK

I like the result well enough, have you considered blending manually, that one doesn't look like it would be all that hard to blend manually.

"Bent"

Near Morrison, Colorado

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Olmsted Point, Yosemite NP

avondale87 wrote in post #19095476
Mt Roland early last week

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Very pretty shot, Richard!

5280Pics wrote in post #19095603

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Beautifully photographed. Fantastic lighting and color.

digital_AM wrote in post #19095886
"Bent"

Near Morrison, Colorado

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Very appealing shot! I love the way you captured the sunlight shinning between the two trees.

TRhoads wrote in post #19095877
I like the result well enough, have you considered blending manually, that one doesn't look like it would be all that hard to blend manually.

Thank you. My post processing skills are not great so I tend to go for button click solutions rather than magic wands and adjustment layers but I think I should give it a try as it would be a great skill to improve.

Lame-Duck wrote in post #19095945
Very pretty shot, Richard!

Beautifully photographed. Fantastic lighting and color.

Very appealing shot! I love the way you captured the sunlight shinning between the two trees.

Thank you! It was tricky to line it up.

Bianchi wrote in post #19096335

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Wow beautiful image