Just down the road from Badlands National Park is another of our country’s fifty-nine National Parks — Wind Cave. People primarily go to Wind Cave to explore what’s under ground, but I prefer it for what’s above. It’s a great area to view pronghorn and I photographed quite a few, including this guy just settling down for the night. I shot two frames and blended them together in post to expose for both the foreground and the sky. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 300mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/1250th of a second and 1/8000th of a second
Hey Lawrie, I did it in post. I actually took five exposures thinking I might do an HDR image, but it worked best by simply choosing one exposure for the foreground and one for the sky and blending them through the trees.
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Hi Sean, looks like he’s settled in for the evening. Nice shot. Did you merge the two exposures in camera or in post processing?
Best regards, Lawrie
Hey Lawrie, I did it in post. I actually took five exposures thinking I might do an HDR image, but it worked best by simply choosing one exposure for the foreground and one for the sky and blending them through the trees.
great pic. did you stich the two pic. togetter make one, or did you take two different pic, and then fade them togettter to mlake one. ?
Have we seen this view—-Yet we now can see it again—-Both of us are content.
We hope to visit some of our National Parks someday and your shots certainly encourage us to start planning soon
Aunt Sue