Using PSPX, combined 3 shots taken at EV +1.0, 0, and -1.0 intervals. Using the darkest shot as the background, applied the mid shot and bright shot as overlay layers and adjusted the opacity on each layer. Applied a curves adjustment layer to the sky. Applied HSL adjustment layer to tone down blues and enhance yellows. Merged layers and applied DNR, resized and applied USM. Made duplicate layer, adjusted histogram, applied usm again.
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Strong dramatic cloud editing a bit over the top for my taste, also I find that the lack of a main subject a bit off, my eye wanders over the frame and finds no interesting place to stop.
It's like I know what this scene is...but I can also see a second completely different one at the same time. It looks like raging fire spread across the horizon madly racing towards me destroying everything in its path. The clouds even look like gigantic pillars of smoke from the destruction of this fire.
Sorry didn't mean to go "Walter Smitty" on you...did I mention it's a beautiful photograph!
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