HIGH CONTRAST

Overexposed 1

Landscapes present another high-contrast situation. It can be hard to keep detail in a bright sky when you’re exposing for the land.

Using an graduated ND filter 2

An ND grad is dark at the top and clear at the bottom, allowing you to bring the exposure value of the sky closer to that of the land.

Corrected 3

An alternative is to bracket the exposure and then combine the well-exposed areas of each shot when you work on them in-software.