Quote Originally Posted by daq7
You need to have a version of PS that supports your raw format. You call up the raw file. You can select the exposure from +4 to -4 from the shot you took. If you save a tif file from this it is more or less as if that is exactly the shot you took from the camera. Just save the original exposure that will give you the foreground. Save maybe the -2 exposure that will give you better sky exposure. Maybe -3. Load them in photoshop and layer them. Then apply a gradient to the sky exposure to expose just the sky on the -3 shot. It achieves exactly what a ND filter does, and you only need one camera shot to do it, and you can choose to do it with any raw that you have.
I may play with that technique some but that still seems like a lot of PPing when with just using a filter I am not having to create several exposures. I have CS4 surely that would be good enough for an old E3.