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Stacking software can align and combine the sky exposures into one bright, high-contrast image; the photographer then replaces the sky in the foreground frame with the stacked sky frame.

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Such frames will keep your viewer's attention on the picture. They will also add depth to the image as your eye looks from the foreground frame to the background scene and back again.