sunset in HDR

This is my first attempt to HDR imaging. The picture is composed in photoshop from two exposures, two stops apart, with some extra dodging and burning.

Technically, this is of course not really a HDR (High Dynamic Range) image, as it it still an ordinary JPEG. It is merely a "manually tonemapped" image composed from to different exposures. But the term is overly abused for things like this, I just can use it as well.

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