Merged 3 shots 0,1,-1 EV. Used heavy ghost reduction as it was very windy out today. Also selected "auto tone" as well.
(I'm very impressed with the ghost reduction here BTW. I love how Photomatix does GH and I like it much better than HDR Pro in NIK. (JMO))
The only thing I did to it was select the gradient brush, and darkened the sky to the original -1 EV shot, and brought out some shadows,. and uppoed the exposure a bit in the foreground and on the barn.
Then I did my usual crop (not much, some off the right side as the road was showing a bit}.
Also took away a little sharpness and noise from the sky, and sharpened the rest of the pic. (with the brush).
Then I adjusted the whole shot adding white and a touch black. White balance stayed "as shot".
It is very good for basicly just blending exposures and then brushing away, which I could do in PS by using layers. This is faster however and much simpler.
If I wanted that HDR-ish look, I would have done it in Photomatix, but for this, doing it in LR really works. The only thing I need to do is upgrade my GPU . Slow as molasses.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/117211217@N08/17255923656/in/photostream/
(I'm very impressed with the ghost reduction here BTW. I love how Photomatix does GH and I like it much better than HDR Pro in NIK. (JMO))
The only thing I did to it was select the gradient brush, and darkened the sky to the original -1 EV shot, and brought out some shadows,. and uppoed the exposure a bit in the foreground and on the barn.
Then I did my usual crop (not much, some off the right side as the road was showing a bit}.
Also took away a little sharpness and noise from the sky, and sharpened the rest of the pic. (with the brush).
Then I adjusted the whole shot adding white and a touch black. White balance stayed "as shot".
It is very good for basicly just blending exposures and then brushing away, which I could do in PS by using layers. This is faster however and much simpler.
If I wanted that HDR-ish look, I would have done it in Photomatix, but for this, doing it in LR really works. The only thing I need to do is upgrade my GPU . Slow as molasses.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/117211217@N08/17255923656/in/photostream/