How can these shots be improved?

[sean_damien]

Nice shots. of the two, I prefer the first one. A question- were these shot in Raw? If they were, you can create two versions from the same file: one the exposes the sky correctly, and one that exposes the foreground correctly. Then put them in Photoshop and use a layer mask to combine them. I think you can improve the foreground contrast of both shots quite a bit using this technique.

- Joe U.

Hi Joe, thanks for the feedback!

I have been planning to try out that HDR technique. I actually just installed Photoshop CS2 today.

For some reason however, I can't open my NEF (RAW) files in Photoshop. It tells me that the file is not valid.

Is there something I need to do to get the RAW data into CS2?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks :thumbsup: