A Foray Into HDR

The web has gone crazy for High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. If you don't believe me, Google it. My attempt was located at the church where Katie and I will be married. I took the pictures at 2:00 PM, when the sun is low in the southern sky leading to the bright sun across the crucifix. However, this lead to such a great contrast that my camera was confused. I used the -2/0/+2 EV trick that all the tutorials used (plus some extras between and around these values) but the brights were too bright in all but the darkest of the pictures. Anyway, here are the pictures:


I look forward to another "shot" at this interesting effect. Note that I had to do all of the HDR tweaking manually instead of using built-in tools such as those in Photoshop CS2. This made it more difficult and perhaps an experienced professional could have done better even with the images I took.