Every landscape photographer is aware that what the eye sees is not what the camera delivers. Numerous techniques exist to control dynamic range within a single exposure, for example using Graduated Neutral Density Filters, but they have serious limitation in scenes with extreme dynamic range and/or if there are trees, rocks or other subjects bisecting the area where the graduated line is going to pass. We’ve all seen images with sea stacks with unnaturally dark tops rising into a beautifully exposed sky.

Contemporary processing techniques are opening doors to photographers enabling us to create image that have natural looking dynamic range, even in extreme situations.

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