As the planned location for observing the lunar eclipse was totally clouded over and being drenched with torrential rain I have been revisiting a few images from my early Z owning days. Coming, as I did, from APSC I had some approaches to PP that were not well suited to the Z files. There was one image that completely stumped me with PP. I had 5 bracketed images for this one as the DR was extreme, beyond even the Z. I didn't actually know that at the time as the Z was new to me, but just repeated my APSC workflow for high DR scenes. But... the conditions changed so much, wind on water, clouds forming and racing that HDR was not working for this image. I have posted an older attempt previously and now hate it. I ended up taking two images and tone blending them in Photomatix Pro. This made a total hash of the water and the sky and mountain/sky interface. But it made a good stab at the terrestrial area. I then manually blended the darker of the two images and the tonemapped photomatix image. It isn't perfect but it is a great improvement on my earlier attempts. It is such a beautiful scene, and a unique take on a very well recorded subject, I will probably revisit these images again as I learn more tricks to make it right.
So Kilchurn Castle during the last moments of blue hour ahead of sunrise on a misty morning with the Z and the FA 150 2.8