I have just returned from an astrophotography (private) workshop in Moab, Utah. I had some free time during my photo workshop the first morning. There is a road outside of the town of Moab, Utah that runs along the Colorado River.This road and river are not in the national park and drones are permitted. One of the formations looks like a castle, so the road is called the Castle Valley Road. I processed this image in Adobe Photoshop using multiple masks. I did a gradient mask for the left side, which was dark, another gradient mask for the bright opposite shore, and a third mask for the river. For the dark tower on the left I did several linear and radial gradient masks.The image is 16 bit but still could not avoid banding in the sky. The image is processed in 5 separate masks due to the high dynamic range.
Dale
Miami
Dale
Miami
