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Big Thunder Railroad HDR Masked Nik-8558

This is one of my favorite places in Disneyland to shoot and I can't help but to take a few shots here every visit. The sky was typical SoCal overcast for most of the morning, but the HDR tratment helped out the drap sky. Since we were bringing my wife's friend to Disneyland for the first time, pictures were not the focus, so I had to squeeze them in when I could.

 

I've been trying out some masking techniques in CS5. For this picture, I took a 3-shot bracket at +2,0,-2 without the train and then one more shot at 1/20" with the train. After processing the HDR, I added the shot with the train as another layer and masked out everything except the train and then adjusted that layer to best match the background.

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Uploaded on September 24, 2012
Taken on August 25, 2012