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Quarry Skyline on the North Yorkshire Dales

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View over the Dales from Toft Gate Lime Kiln

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Moss and Lichen growing on a dry stone wall near Kilnsey, North Yorkshire.

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Close up shot of the Toft Gate Lime Kiln in the North Yorkshire Dales.

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Hanging on
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Toft Gate Lime Kiln

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Here is my first real attempt at an HDR image, taken from three shot with a 1.3+- exposure bracketing.
The foreground is a bit blurry as the wind was moving the plants and I wasn’t using a tripod, notes for next time.

• After converting from the RAW files I arranged the three images as separate layers in Photoshop.
  
• The layers where arranged as +1.3 exposure,normal,-1.3.
  
• Then I added layer masks to the top two layers.
  
• Painting on the top layer mask I removed the “burnt out” sections from the top layers so the correctly exposed section from the layer below showed through.
  
• I repeated this again on the second layer.
  
• I ran a low Gaussian blur on the layer masks to soften the edges of the masks to reduce the halo effect.
  
• Then I merge each layer into the one below to create the finished image.
  

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Ripon Sunset Clouds
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

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Lilly
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

From our front garden

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Been playing with this tutorial in Photoshop, using Dragan and David Hill Effects

Here is the before


and the after

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Video tutorial of the dodge and burn tools

Result is a bit over the top but he explains the use of the tools well.

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