Took this yesterday at the park. I had a hard time trying to edit it to bring out more color in the trees because the clouds were so bright in comparison.
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This is probably a poster child for an HDR photo: A large disparity between the highs and lows, stationary subjects, and most of it probably beyond the hyperfocal distance.
Poke around in your camera's settings and you may find the option. It probably has it built in, but in the unlikely even it doesn't you can still brute force it by exposure bracketing manually (i.e. take a couple of shots of the same thing at bright/medium/dark exposure levels via fiddling with your shutter speed) and smash the resulting photos together on your computer in software, e.g. HDRMerge or similar.
Yeah there's a button on top for turning on the HDR ๐
My coworker also told me about setting masks to control the exposure on the horizon separately and I've been watching tutorials on how to do it in Darktable. Going to give it a try once I get some time to sit down at my computer.
I'm pretty new to photography, so thanks for the tips!