Recently I stumbled upon a great exposure blending tutorial by photographer David Clapp. He does a good job of going through the steps required to get a shot that has a great dynamic range – so there is excellent detail both in the highlights of the picture as well as the shadows. This effect is usually only possible with the use of expensive Neutral Gradient filters, but David shows how it is possible to achieve the same effect by blending together multiple exposures in photoshop.
Be sure to check out David’s tutorial.
At a recent coast trip I grabbed several exposures of a sunset with the intention of making an HDR image, but I didn’t like the result generated by the software. With David’s tutorial I was able to produce the following image.
While it isn’t the most interesting sunset, the final image does capture the over all feel of the setting better than any of my individual exposures did by themselves.
