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[Greg McCary]

F stands for Frog. LOL I like the last edit much better. It has a more natural late evening feel to it. Nice work.

[daq7]

To elaborate: When you take a raw shot you are taking a shot of more than one exposure. This is why raw is so important. It lets you CHANGE the exposure you got in the field. All the detail is there for each of these exposures as if you had actually taken all 8 of them separately. This is a BIT if an exaggeration, since I think there are SOME issues as they get farther from the central one, but I am not exactly sure what they are. All you do is take the normal exposure and one maybe two stops down for the sky, maybe three, and then layer them and apply a gradient to blend them together. It is slightly more work than an ND filter, but nothing stops you from layering even more exposures for greater control.

HDR itself is like having an ND filter on every pixel. Sort of.