I’m still just a beginner of photography. I’ve lots of things to learn and practice and I’m aware of that this thing is not only about technology. I just could not help not to try this HDR thing. I was so much taken by Trey Ratcliff’s HDR photos and later by John Miles works. You can find very good tutorials and descriptions of High Dynamic Range photography on the net like these below:

• HDR tutorial (by Trey Ratcliff)
• High Dynamic Range Digital Photography (by Guy J Brown)
• The High Dynamic Range (HDR) Landscape Photography Tutorial by Royce Howland
• HDR: High Dynamic Range Photography
• High Dynamic Range imaging by Wikipedia

The point is that you combine differently exposed (under, well and over) pictures into one HDR image and run a process called tone mapping using some special software. The result is a high contrast, rich of colours and vivid picture.

So, I could not resist to the temptation and created my own first HDR photos.

This picture was taken in Tompa, Hungary. I took 3 shots with the bracketing function (-2, 0, +2) of my camera. My attention was grabbed by the vivid colours of the painting of the old building. Traditional photos could not reflect those nice colours.

The originals:

This one was taken not too far, just a few minutes driving, from the previous one. Again three shots with bracketing depicting a typical lowland scene of the Great Hungarian Plain.

The originals: