I was in New York City today and decided to take a bit of time and travel up to Central Park for some HDR captures.

This is the first one I processed, looking toward the East Side from within the park. I shot this as I liked the water, building and gray sky together. Technically, I took 9 exposures on a tripod with 1EV difference between each and combined them in Photomatix. Then, processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Images are made where you find them... In this case, it was in a graveyard where I was helping my wife do some ancestry research.

This image is an HDR made from 9 separate exposures and then converted to B&W with an infrared filter. I felt the scene needed something other than the pure HDR colors and this seemed to work nicely.

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Here are some scenic photos from a trip we took to Pennsylvania yesterday. I used my Nikon D300 and these were all shot with my Nikon 18-200mm zoom.

These shots were either true HDRs or pseudo-HDR (1 exposure, tonemapped.)

The entire set can be found here on my Flickr page.

I took some HDR shots yesterday at sunset from lower Manhattan looking across the Hudson. Each is built from 5 exposures made with my Nikon D300 and Sigma 10-20mm lens.

Hope you like them.

We a nice bit of snow today in northern New Jersey. I've been wondering what HDR does to winter scenes, so I decided to give it a go.

This was shot with my Nikon D300 and 10-20mm Sigma lens. It's built from 5 separate exposures.

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I came across a series of photos I'd taken last month with HDR in mind and never processed. Thought it was worth a go as the image seemed quite nice.

While working on this, I decided to play with the highlight colors a bit. Had some fun. Hope you like it.

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I spent some time in New York City today and took a bunch of exposures for HDR. Here's the first finished image Here are the first two finished images.

I used my new Sigma 10-20mm lens for this. It's a superwide zoom and my first Sigma glass. A great lens so far. Sharp, nice color and fine build quality.

OK, so I went out and shot a few HDR (high dynamic range) images this morning to properly try out my new Photomatix software. Each image is actually a combination of 5 separate shots, each with a 1 stop difference in exposure.

I've still got a lot to learn about HDR, but I'm pleased with the first results.

I just started playing with HDR (high dynamic range) and tone mapping and thought it would be perfect for an image I captured of a fireplace a few weeks back.

This isn't a true HDR as I created three exposures from a single RAW file, but I really like the technique and will be shooting some true HDRs in the near future.

I used Photomatix to combine the three exposures and do the tone mapping and then completed the processing in Lightroom. Lemme know what you think. I pushed reality a bit on this one, but wanted to demonstrate the power of the flames, which I heightened by capturing them with a slow shutter speed.