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This is of course the Great White Throne as seen from the Virgin River at the Big Bend in Zion Canyon. The dynamic range within this scene is about three stops. But the scene does not lend itself to the use of graduated neutral density filters. This composition represents one of my rare attempts to manually merge multiple exposures into a single image. Three exposures were manually merged, one for the Virgin River and the cliffs in the foreground, one for the Great White Throne and one for the sky. My technique may be far from perfect, and I did this on my notebook computer, so it may need to be reworked or at least tweaked when I get home.

Canon 5D II
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L II
25mm, f/22, 1.3 seconds and 0.3 second and 1/6 second, ISO 50, polarizer