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This tutorial outlines the technique I used to stack two photos to improve the overall look and color range in "Teal Road Pasture".

White/overexposed skies are a pet peeve of mine, and I'll gladly do the extra work to have a natural sky (especially when it's this dramatic). When taking the source images, you'll want to be careful to keep them well aligned to make stacking easier. A tripod can help with this. If your camera has an "Exposure Bracketing" mode, (which takes a shot at an exposure it thinks is correct, a second darker and a third lighter) this will help as well. The two sources here are handheld with two images from exposure bracketing of -2/3ev and -2 2/3ev.

(By the way, I can't take credit for the technique, I'm sure I've seen it outlined somewhere else.)