Originally posted by maxxxx Nice picture! One thing I wonder about: How do you keep the different bracketed sequences apart? I have had several occasions where I shot a few of them in short succession and sometimes I couldn't tell which picture belongs to which sequence.
Mine always brackets from over to under (I think you can control which way, have to dive into the bracketing menus again), so you see them in 5-shot sets, looking at them in the browser view,
If you shoot more than one set in a scene it's pretty obvious where the 2/3-stop difference and the 2-1/3-stop difference is (usually have my view in Aperture sorted by name, and leave the sequential number assigned by the camera, another clue to the sequence). In Aperture, you Shift+select the frames you want to composite and right click to export to the Nik plug-in.
I've done a few where, even though I shot five frames, I only composited 3-frames, depends on the scene and the lighting.
This system works pretty well in contrasty lighting, clouds and water etc. Even if I only pull one frame out of the five I shoot, I can find one that has a good tonal range. In good light you can bang off a set in a second, the Nik software is pretty good about cleaning up movement artifacts if the scene has not shifted too much.
From the User Preset I can easily change either the bracket range, the aperture or the ISO as needed for a scene.