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When we decided to cut short our road trip to Washington due to some foul weather we decided to hand at one of our favorite towns in all west coast instead of heading straight back to SoCal. So we headed to Bend Oregon and one of our favorite locations near Bend, the Smith Rock State Park. This park is a popular destination for rock climbers. We had a great morning here 2-3 years ago and wanted to see if we can land a repeat.
We reached the park well before sunrise and this time prepared a little bit better by doing some research using photopills. The problem with summer sunrises here is that the sun us completely behind the rock formations creating pretty intense shadows and overall high dynamic range scenes. I tried exposure blending in this image using luminosity masks, it’s a very tedious process compared to my usual edits, but the final images look much more natural than the overhanded HDR approach. Have a great day and thanks for visiting.