For those who don't know what HDR photography is, here's a cut and paste from Wikipedia:
High Dynamic Range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures (i.e. a large difference between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows.
These are only fair examples of the process and I'll practice it some more shortly. To do HDR, I tripod the camera and then bracket several photographs of the same scene, making 2-3 under and 2-3 over exposed. I combine them in photoshop using file-automate-merge to HDR. A bit of tone mapping later and I have an image with the HDR characteristics.
The images should all look like old fashioned 'postcards' - or just look different somehow.
In this image, you can see three people walking - it is actually only one, who moved across my bracketed images as I took them. This was the most successful of the lot for me.
The above practice was for preparing myself to take interesting HDR shots with people/kids. So I tried a couple with my daughter and the "baldie whose bright shiney pate massacres the contrast on all my images'
This was the least interesting of the HDR images - Maia had moved a foot in the middle of bracketing the shots - so you can see a motion blur in there. This really lacks the HDR 'wow' factory. It almost looks like a low contrasty normal pic
