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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ohkphoto" data-source="post: 16553" data-attributes="member: 1573">Total redo on the day 71 photo. My initial attraction was the sky, not the cedar trees. And that's what I focused on. Here's what I have learned from this:1. iso 800 and slow shutter speed is the perfect recipe for noise in the shadow areas, and lots of it . . . LR and Define take most out but not all.2. Never assume that you won't need your tripod.3. If you start with a bad combination to begin with (#1) above, deghosting in photomatix pro will only make it worse.4. Photos can be salvaged if you listen to your inner voice and stick to your vision. So, here's my redo. I reduced the number of exposures I used for the HDR, the trees were still dark but the sky was noise-free, so I simply cropped out the dark, basically useless part of the photo and salvaged the sky part.   [ATTACH]2004[/ATTACH]</blockquote>