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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felisek" data-source="post: 321532" data-attributes="member: 23887">Thank you for your kind comments.I know that the D7100 sensor has a great dynamic range, and I've been impressed by it since I bought the camera a few months ago. But I didn't realise how much details it keeps in the shadows. When I looked at the underexposed version of picture #2 in my original post (if anything, clouds are underexposed in this bracket), I though that darks were definitely too dark and if I try to extract anything from them I well get a lot of noise:[ATTACH]96148[/ATTACH]This is why I went for HDR in the first place. However, after your comments I decided to give it a go. After some tweaking in ViewNX2 and then in NIK plugins, this is what I got:[ATTACH]96150[/ATTACH]Well, you learn something all the time! Honestly, I didn't expect to get that much from such a dark picture. This is as good as the HDR above. There are tiny differences between these two pictures, the HDR has more details, but I could use detail extractor from ColorEffex to obtain a similar effect, if I wanted to. The only real difference is in the level of noise in darker parts:[ATTACH]96147[/ATTACH][ATTACH]96149[/ATTACH]The HDR is at the top and the single exposure at the bottom. But this is really pixel picking. Even on my retina MacBook Pro screen the single exposure picture looks great in full-screen view.Next time, I will think twice before I get into HDR. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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