I had five exposures to choose form, so I started a t the darkest (so the highlights wouldn't be blown out) and created the best possible result that I could. There was too much noise from underexposure, so I copied the Develop Lightroom settings and pasted them into the next lighter image. I had to darken the exposure a bit to get it to look like the result from the darker RAW file, but this result had a lot less noise and only marginally started to lose the highlights.
Whether this result or the one produced from the 5 file average is a matter of taste. I like the more blue sky tone better in this one, but I think you can tell that in the cloud lighting and color that the other image has more dynamic range. The 5 file average has more contrast in the Fall colors, but I had to paint all that mid-ground terrain lighter (to make the dumb camera representation more natural, as our eyes would change exposure onsite). The higher contrast is probably partly a slightly more aggressive attempt to bring out shadow detail during that "dodging" operation, but I can't discount that it may be more effective thanks in part to greater dynamic range in those shadows.
To see all three versions side by side, try this album view:
https://plus.google.com/photos/107459220492917008623/albums/5786200310326351313
Edit 3: Single file adjusted in Lightroom
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Man that is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Im fond of cool colors....I stay away from warm when I can....beautiful end result
very very beautiful
+Jeff Sullivan after your playing with different edits, which is your favorite? I did the same thing the other day with a bracketed set and ended up being happiest with the single picture edit. I like this one.
this is very amazing
WOW! this is amazing. Where is this and when did you photograph it?
Yes, the color palette varies and I guess is a personal pref issue. Probably you could make the colors a lot more similar if you wanted to so perhaps that is not a crux issue here. I agree that the sky color is nicest in the last single file; I like the batch for most of the rest of the image. One thing about the single file is the water surface detail is retained, which I like. I don't detect any masking or other boundary artifacts in any of them and they all work for me. Thanks for sharing the process.
beautiful
Stunning!! :D
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