Hi all – apologies for the disappearance, but we’re back with some very special photos.  Here is my very first HDR shot.  For those of you that are not familiar, HDR stands for High Dynamic Range photography. It is a process where you combine a handful of photos. These photos have different exposure levels. They are combined to create a single image.  Opinion is pretty much split on this style of photography.  Many people say that the images are too color-contrasted. They argue that it makes images look flat.  Others say the images are closer to what the human eye sees. This is true if you don’t make the HDR look like a cartoon effect.

I personally like them, and here’s my first one.  We flew overnight between San Francisco and Auckland, New Zealand.  The sun was rising in the distance. I was trying out a new 14mm Canon lens that I bought. I was also adding in the HDR automatic exposure bracketing.  The result is sort of an ‘apocolypse over Air New Zealand’.  Hope you enjoy!!

Canon 7D | Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L | 14mm | f/5.0 | 1/100th | ISO100