When you’re shooting a scene at sunset and don’t want to bother with fiddly ND grad filters, this photo project is a great solution for creating a balanced scene with a full range of tones and colours.
By bracketing exposures in the AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) mode of your Canon camera, you can capture three Raw photos; one standard exposure, one underexposure for the bright sky, and one overexposure and darker land area. With your three Raw images, it’s then easy to use the Merge to HDR Raw feature in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom in Photoshop. With your HDR Raw image, we can then edit to reveal more tones, detail and colours, as well as adding digital ND grad filters and selectively warming up areas. We’ve also edited our JPEG image in Photoshop using layers and a warm orange Photo Filter, plus boosted the reds for a brilliant, balanced, sunset landscape photograph.
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