I'm in Bali now with my photo tour group, and one of the setups I do on this trip is pose two beautiful Balinese dancers at the bottom of a dramatic dragon staircease in a Hindu temple in the jungle. It's an amazing shot, and everyone had a great time. It's quite dark at the bottom, and together with the bright sky behind the dancers the contrast is quite extreme. Therefore, I used the HDR technique to try and capture as much detail as possible taking into consideration that the models can't hold perfectly still. Photoshop did an amazing job at aligning the three frames I took to create a very sharp composite without any ghosting. My exposures were in two f/stop increments, and my settings for the middle exposure were 1/250, f/5.6, and 3200 ISO. I used a 24-105mm Canon lens and hand held the shot.
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