I've become used to processing almost all my landscape images with HDR software rather than using a single exposure. One thing HDR processing can do is add texture to an otherwise boring sky.
While some people don't like the look of exaggerated HDR skies, I don't find it all that different from the result you'd get from using a polarizer filter.
A week ago I was out shooting on a very cold morning and decided to stop in at the old Cohoes Falls overlook downstream from the falls. We had just had a lot of rain and the Mohawk River was quite full. After making a few shots of the falls, I walked a bit and turned my attention to the river below the falls.
Here are three shots from that perspective showing both a single, normally exposed image and the result of HDR processing using Photomatix Essentials' "painterly" settings. Bracketed exposures for the HDR processing were 1.5 stops under and over exposed.
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| Canon EOS 5DII, EF 17-40mm f/4L at 40mm, f/8, 1/500 sec., ISO 200 |
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| Canon EOS 5DII, EF 17-40mm f/4L at 17mm, f/8, 1/500 sec., ISO 200 |
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| Canon EOS 5DII, EF 17-40mm f/4L at 40mm, f/8, 1/500 sec., ISO 200 |
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