Greenweed

Greenweed, originally uploaded by Bexley98.

My first foray into HDR (High Dynamic Range).

For the unitiated, you take several shots of the same subject with varying exposures, from light to dark. Then you combine them in a piece of software (I use Photmatix Pro which is fairly idiot-proof).

For my HDRs, I'm using one RAW file and then exposing several JPEGs, for this shot I exposed 8 times. (-2EV, -1.5EV,-1EV, right the way up to +2EV)

As an Olympus user, the system is often cricitised for it's lack of dynamic range...to be honest it's not something I've really noticed but HDRs certainly add an element of the surreal and clearly generate interest amongst the photographic community. This is my first pic to have over 50 views.