When I took this picture of the Inn Dein ruins at Inle Lake, Burma, it had just finished raining and the sky was deeply overcast. It is essential to use HDR in this situation to prevent the sky from becoming completely blown out with no texture or detail. White skies are terribly detracting to landscapes, cityscapes, and any kind of architecture. For this image, I used the built-in HDR capability of the Canon 5D Mark III which shows me in a jpeg image on the LCD monitor how the HDR composite will look when I assemble the various bracketed exposures in Photoshop or Photomatix. Note how much detail you can see in the sky above the ruins. That is the result of using a three f/stop incremental bracketing of this scene. The lens aperture for this shot was f/22 and the ISO was set to 250.
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Oct 14, 2015, 10:24:55 PM
Jean Paschke - I just want to say "Thank You!" I read all of your blog comments and am very grateful that you are willing to share your expertise. It has been very helpful. I am basically a beginner but am in love with photography so your photos and complete descriptions of how you have done them has been wonderful. Thank you so much.