Shooting Straight into the Sun! 1000x Dynamic Range with 15 Raw Frames

Thomas Chu Photo

In today's video tutorial, Thomas shares a complex landscape capture and post-processing case.

Because the dazzling sun was photographed directly, with thin clouds interfering, the scene's light ratio between dark and bright areas exceeded 1000:1 — complex exposure bracketing was needed to record all the detail.

To make matters worse, there was flowing water in the frame, requiring multi-frame stacking to smooth the surface. How exactly should such a complex scene be captured and processed?

Video Tutorial

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