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  7th May by arantha

  amazing shot!

  
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  7th May by Dabbler

  How do you managed to get all the details in the shadows? These would be just sillhouettes in my pictures. Goodness, if you are an amateur, then I am an insiginificant photographer!

  
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  7th May by satkinson

  Lovely sunrise/sunset shot. I assume it's not Afghanistan (as per tag!). Lovely light on the foreground and great composition.

  
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  7th May by sam_j_young

  Stunning photograph!  Is the detail/lighting in the shadow of the tree done post post production?  if not how did you get this so it wasn't a silhouette?

  
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  8th May by Liz Cleere

  Congratulations on picture of the week, Mike. Lovely atmospheric shot. It's quite Tolkienesque, very magical. To get that kind of detail did you use HDR?

  
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  8th May by Mark Sykes

  Thank you very much everyone.
  
  
  
  Sorry about the Tags, the site is incredible slow to load and decided to leave it as default.
  
  I altered it now though.
  
  
  
  How I took the photo:
  
  I took 3 exposures, 1 for Sun area, 1 for the background/clouds and 1 for the tree/foreground (maybe 1.5 stops apart).
  
  Then I stacked the files as layers in Photoshop and blended them together, by painting on the layer mask.
  
  This reveals parts of the image below it and creates a better blend than using HDR software.
  
  It's time consuming (1 hour plus), but it's worth it.
  

  
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  8th May by Velo Yellow

  Congrats on photo of the week, well deserved.

  
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  9th May by Jamie Furlong

  Super shot, Mark. Great bit of processing and proof that there's nothing wrong with tinkering in Photoshop if you end up with stunners like this IMHO.

  
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  9th May by Fintown Trekker

  Ah jeez! How long am I stupid now....sure all I saw was the westerly slant of the tree - I missed all the digital trickery. (must have been other one I commented on)This bears out my contention that what is grossly wrong with the photoshoppery is that we are presented with something the photographer did not actually see.

  
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  9th May by Rhoda1

  I'd disagree, FT - this is what the photographer actually saw.  Cameras do not have the same capabilities as the human eye, so this would have been rendered largely as silhouette if done straight.  Photoshoppery can be a wonderful tool for restoring what the photographer did in fact see.  So can stacking, which I think I understand has been used here.  HDR for me often gives a very unnatural effect and I don't tend to like it much.

  
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  9th May by Mark Sykes

  Thank you all.
  
  
  
  Finton, Rhonda is correct.
  
  This is what I saw. Camera's don't have enough dynamic range at the moment, so you need to taking multiple exposures.
  
  
  
  In the olden days they dodged and burned, now it's done in Ps.
  
  It's still witchcraft ;-)
  

  
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  13th May by Duma

  a lovely shot

  
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