Category: Photography

Cedar Creek Falls Sunday morning.

I usually use Adobe Lightroom for general photography and Adobe Photoshop for astrophotography. For landscapes, I often shoot exposure bracketed so that I can combine the three images into one more balanced image. With this image, the Lightroom HDR merge option resulted in a picture with blown out highlights and crushed blacks. So, I decided to try something I have been thinking about since I was processing total eclipse photos recently. That is to use Photoshop’s, “load stack” option to align three images and put them into a smart object and then use a stack mode of “mean”. Above is the result, no crushed blacks or blown out highlights.