322 Blending two exposures of a single scene

…Hey gang, this is Deke Mcclelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Today, I'm going to show you how to merge two…different exposures of a single raw photograph inside Photoshop.…And when I say exposures, I mean that we're…exposing the photographs in two different ways, inside Camera Raw.…We'll start with this very dark exposure here, where the…landscape is way too dark, but the sky is quite dramatic.…And then, we'll turn around and re-expose that exact same photograph…in Camera Raw so that the landscape is nice and bright, but…the sky is a little washed out, and then we'll combine the…two together inside Photoshop to create this ideal version of the scene.…

Now, some of you may look at this and…wonder, well why don't you just approach this entire thing…inside Camera Raw, or Lightroom, what have you, using…the graduated filter, to separate the sky from the foreground.…Or, you could use the Adjustment brush.…Well.…I'm looking, there's two reasons, by the way.…One is, I'm looking to mask the mountains away from the sky.…