Ogle Cabin View

Here's an example where HDR photography really allows you to capture the highlights and shadows of your scene.  This was taken inside an old cabin in the Smokies looking out a window towards another cabin.  If this was taken with one exposure you would only be able to properly expose for either the bright outside or the darker inside the cabin, but not both.

Morning Dew

Here's a colorful shot I took in my backyard last Fall.  I used my 100mm macro set to 1/125 sec at f 3.5.  The wide f-stop really shortened the depth of focus and blurred the background flowers and just let the colors show through. 

Old Town Orange

Old Town Orange is a nice old neighborhood in Orange County, California.  There are a lot of old Craftsman style houses in this very well kept neighborhood.  In my opinion, this is one of the nicest examples of what can be found there.  I took three separate images of this scene covering an exposure range of 5 stops and then combined them together using Photomatix Pro software.   I then cropped it to eliminate the power wire and car in the driveway.  Below is the middle exposure of the three images taken.

You can see that the final image at the top has detail in the shadows and sky that is missing in the middle exposure image.  That is the advantage of HDR processing as it pulls that missing detail out of the other two images in the three image series.

Life Boat

This is a photo I took in Dana Point Harbor last year.  I like the symmetry of the boat and its reflection.  The only processing I did was a curves adjustment for contrast and some sharpening.

Half Dome in B&W

Since we're in the dead of winter here in SoCal (high today was a frigid 72 degrees), it reminded me of my winter visit to Yosemite a couple of years ago.  We had clear skies then and relatively warm temps.  But as always Yosemite was gorgeous.  What was really nice was the lack of people.  Late Fall and Winter are great times to visit the park because hardly anybody else is there.  This was one of the many pictures I took of Yosemite's most famous monument.  I converted it to black and white using Nik's Silver Efex Pro.  Having white puffy clouds in the sky would have been nice, but they were no where to be found during my visit that time.

Old Red House

This is a photo that I shot in Maine.  It was located in one of the many little fishing harbors along the coast.  I loved the look of the flaking paint on the clapboards.  This one was processed using Topaz Adjust to help bring out the texture.

Disney Fireworks

Here's one of my photos of the fireworks show above Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland.  I had to shoot this one at a high ISO speed in order to be able to use a fast enough shutter speed to hand hold the camera.  For the camera techies, this was taken at 1/15th sec @ f 4.5 at ISO 1600.  The only post processing that was done was noise removal using Lightroom.