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here there are big mountains, there are big skies. But
because of the difference in brightness between the
two, youre likely to be left with well-exposed land mass yet
with an overly bright, colourless and detail-free sky. The
easiest solution is to use a graduated neutral density filter
(ND Grad), which is clear at the bottom and semi-opaque at
the top to produce a balanced exposure. For our shot we used
a 2-stop ND grad (take exposure readings from the land and
sky and calculate the difference), which has given us a blue
sky packed full of cloud detail. Alternatively, take two identical
Raw shots, exposing one for the land and one for the sky, then
simply combine them in Photoshop, using layers and layer
masks to reveal the correct exposures for each.
Silky waters
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2-STOP ND GRAD
NO ND GRAD