“Two exposure manual blend” means that I take two exposures (from a tripod) of the same exact scene, one right after the other, but at different shutter speeds – one to expose correctly for the bright sky, and one to expose correctly for the much darker town/valley. Then I take the two exposures and blend them together in Photoshop to obtain a properly exposed scene throughout the image. This is the digital equivalent of using graduated neutral density filters, but in this case it works better since the horizon is not a straight line.

You can read a tutorial about the basics of this technique here: http://www.fredmiranda.com/article_2/

Gorgeous! What’s your blending technique?