Exercise 22. Additon

For the first part of this exercise I choose to use 3 photographs with different exposures and to merge them with the Photomatix trial software.

I used a shot that had a good range of tones in the sky and one that different exposures would clearly define the sky and the landscape differently.

This is the shot with the best sky definition.

This shot has the best landscape but the sky is a little washed out:

When the photographs are combined this is the result:

The final picture captures both the landscape and sky with excellent detail and definition.

For the second part of this exercise I choose two photographs that I had taken on separate occasions.  The first in Scotland when the skies were clear and there was a good deal of reflection on the water, this was my landscape photograph.  The second had been taken with a wide angle lens in Devon when there was a more dramatic skyline.

This is the original photograph which has a good landscape but fairly ordinary sky.

This is the dramatic skyline shot taken with a wide angle lens to give a sense of movement to the clouds.

The Combined version is below:

I have had to saturate the sky slightly in order to bring a degree of brightness that matches that in the reflection.