HDR photography

I had my first shot at High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography on Saturday morning.

Took the camera and a tripod out in the garden and took 5 shots, each with a different amount of exposure, ranging from darkest, darker, average, light and lighter

Then I bring them into Photoshop CS3 and let it combine them so that you end up with a very well exposed shot that holds the highlights without them getting blown out and dark, rich shadows which retain detail. A few wee tweaks and it's done.

Basically, it's a bit of digital folacio. I'm going to try some shots at the beach etc and see how they turn out.

You can see the results here with the final image at the top and 3 of the 5 images used to make it below.