Holme Skooled

I got skooled! One of those you come away thinking what should I have done differently. I wanted to focus stack as I was so close to the foreground, but then had a massive dynamic range shooting directly into the sun (which I then cropped out 😆). Anyway, I used my camera focus bracketing function, and manually took multiple shots exposing for the sky and foreground. I was planning on blending the focus stacks, and then merging the TIFs using the Lightroom HDR merge. Ermmm. Computer says NO 😂 Because the clouds were moving so fast, I got horrible artifacts in the sky when I tried the HDR merge. Should I have:

 

a) not bothered focus stacking and just exposure bracketed

b) used the camera exposure bracketing and manually changed the focus point

c) pointed the camera down even more so the sun was out of the frame (perspective looked weird)

d) gone for a lie-down and a pint of gin

e) not bothered because it's shit anyway 😂

 

God, I've even confused myself now! Anyway, this one was rescued by cropping out the burnt bit 😆

 

TLDR: technically challenged incompetent did it wrong.

 

P.s. It seems the foreground rock with those lovely stripes is dacitic lapilli-tuff! Happy to be corrected 😊

Done