A quick HDR

HSo, here's an example of where HDR comes in useful.  This is from one of my hikes on vacation.  The scene was kind of neat, nothing spectacular, but I couldn't get a good representation.  The white clouds and the dark water made it difficult to get one exposure that pulled out all the details of both.  Enter HDR!  I took 3 photos, each separated by 1.7EV (iirc, don't feel like doing math tonight.  The first image gets all the detail in the water, but the sky is quite washed out:



Now we've got an underexposed image, but can see a bunch of the detail in the clouds:



Here's the correctly exposed image:



It's a little better than the overexposed in terms of detail in the sky, but it's still pretty bad.  Lots of the water detail is lost as well.

  With HDR, I can combine all these exposures into a much more faithful representation of what I saw that day.  This still has a little bit of that "unearthly" look that a lot of HDR has, but that's mostly because I did it quickly.



Anyway,