I Love Earth

[BroMiCs]

I had such a hard time with this shot, Either the sky was totaly blown out, or the ground was just a shaddow.

[Marko]

This is exactly why people play with HDR (layering/merging of bracketed exposures). In many situations like this one you simply cannot get good shadow and highlight detail in one frame. This shot isn't a bad attempt to get both.

[BroMiCs]

Yea, I just heard about that for the first time yesterday.. I will have to try it out some time... what program would you use to merge the shots?

[Marko]

Photoshop CS5 is really good for HDR. Many other people also use photomatix.

[Wicked Dark]

or you could try graduated neutral density filters. they worked back in film days and they work now. makes you more aware of your exposures and how little things create big differences in your photos.

[Marko]

or you could try graduated neutral density filters. they worked back in film days and they work now. makes you more aware of your exposures and how little things create big differences in your photos.

Totally true - thx WD!

[BroMiCs]

graduated neutral density filters.

Wow, thats a mouth full

No clue what that is, but I will have to look into it...
Just out of curiousity, what do they do and how do they work..

and ... cs5 eh... I just got that two days ago.. i was using cs2... what a difference... I feel like a newbie..lol

[squirl033]

or you could try graduated neutral density filters. they worked back in film days and they work now. makes you more aware of your exposures and how little things create big differences in your photos.

they do indeed. if you have no other filters in your bag, a grad ND and a polarizer are the absolute essentials...