ROCKS NEAR MY JOINT

Autumn evening, nice light, two rocks, what the hell? I wanted it subtle and creamy. Two exposures for tonal range, blended manually coz I can’t get any other method to work reliably.

I made one exposure for the shadowed rocks and one for the sky. I made a duplicate copy of the rock image in Screen mode, which lightened everything, then put it under the first image and brushed in shadow detail from the Screen layer.

I added a Multiply Blend layer to the sky image, then a mask, then inverted the mask and brushed in Multiply’s zappy contrast along the lighter edges of the cloud. Whole thing took half an hour tops. Mainly ‘cause I was hungry.

1D MkIII (a bloody heavy camera), 17-40 at 19mm, 8-stop ND, ISO160, 49 secs at f19, Slik AMT tripod with a Really Right Stuff BH40 ballhead.