Peekaboo Canyon via PS Blend

Peekaboo Canyon via PS Blend, originally uploaded by BillyCrafton.

In my second part of my HDR blog, here is a shot where I took 2 shots of different exposure, used the Quick Select Tool in PS CS3 and used that to create a Layer Mask to select just the sky from the second shot.

Here is a picture of the results of combining 5 shots via DPHDR:


I like the blend a little better. I think the HDR shot brings out a little more detail in the shadow areas.

Overall, neither picture is perfect. I think the blend is more asthetic to me. Probably, a combination of the two would make the best picture.