onOne / Managing Black Clouds in HDR Looks

The HDR Looks filter, or any filter that provides tonal compression, are great for recovering lost shadows and highlights. For the landscape shooter, a side effect of HDR looks is that gray clouds sometimes turn black. Unless you're shooting a storm, the image looks unnatural. There's a quick and easy way to deal with this in Perfect Effects.

Scott Davenport

Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.

He also can't help getting his feet wet photographing at the beach.

https://scottdavenportphoto.com
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