Waterfall Help

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I took these pictures the other week at a water fall. The first is a longer exposure to capture the flow of the water;

WhitbyBreak151.jpg


And the second is a shorter exposure to get the sky and the foliage to the right correctly exposed;

WhitbyBreak152.jpg


The question is how do I get the two together. I have tried pasting the images over one another and then using the eraser tool with a flow of aroun 7% to slowy rub away the over exposed sky in the first image.

This looks ok but its not perfect. How would you do it? :thinking:

Thanks in advance ;)
 
You could also use a ND filter on camera to block light from the sky blowing out.
 
like mick say's, use an nd filter and longer exposure.
 
Phil if you have photoshop open both images and select the over exposed shot select Ctrl A to select it all then Ctrl C to copy it then close that image down open the under exposed shot and then Ctrl V to paste the over exposed image onto the under exposed image as a layer,then add a layer mask then use soft brush at 50-70% set to black to paint over the layer mask to bring back as much of the lower image that you need, hope you dont mind I have had a go using this method

WhitbyBreak152-merged.jpg
 
here is my effort

WhitbyBreak152.jpg


This was using the eraser tool. I think ill have another go with the layer mask thing and see what happens ;-)

Yours seems much sharper on the righ than mine. Mine is a little blurred where the trees have moved during exposure.

Thanks for the info.
 
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