Smokies Light

I posted before that taking pics of the fort is like trying to take an interesting pic of a concrete cinder block. HDR helps it out a bit, or at least helps the sky to frame it better. I've noticed post-processing in Photoshop has become limited to sharpening and downsizing for the net. Previously most adjustments were made for brightening underexposed areas and toning down overexposed areas. Those adjustments are no longer necessary. Setting the exposure at capture time for one image is less critical also. Before, when shooting an image with a bright area you had to expose for the bright area but still not totally underexpose the darker areas, and then lighten up the dark areas in Photoshop, and use a fairly low ISO setting to keep the noise low. All that is no longer necessary when shooting and blending multiple exposures. In many ways HDR makes the capture and post-processing much simpler.