This is one of the classic landscape shots from Scotland -- the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye. I made a mistake when I took this, however. I used a 24-105mm lens set to the focal length of 35mm, and instead of using my tripod like I should have (after all, I carried it up the mountain) I hand held the image with an aperture of f/6.3. Because the foreground was fairly close to me, the first 15 feet or so isn't sharp. I hate out of focus foregrounds because they are unattractive, visually annoying, and terribly distracting. So, to address the issue and save the picture, I took a large rock from another landscape image from the same area -- where I did use a tripod and small aperture -- and selected it with the quick selection tool, feathered the edge by one pixel, and then pasted it into the foreground of this shot. This is how it should have looked if I had done it right in the first place. My settings were 1/800, f/6.3, and 200 ISO. This is not an HDR image; instead, in ACR I moved the shadows slider all the way to the right and the highlights slider to the left. This gave me excellent detail throughout the image. Then I added clarity, vibrance, a bit of color saturation, and finally I used the graduated filter in Adobe Camera Raw to tone down the bright sky.
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