a "Photoshop a Day" contribution - old files I was wanting to experiment with

I manually created this HDR by using multiple exposures and setting blending options and masks manually rather than a HDR program processing them for me..... also a dodge/burn layer (2 in fact) more to see if I could do it and what the results would be

couldn't get the images to line up absolutely exactly but then again most of the time neither can Photoshop merge to HDR script


also needed deeper DoF - this was using f/11 on a 70/200 at 70 mm so still quite a narrow depth of field