Putting the DR in HDR

Two posts... can you believe it?? Two in one day!

I had a chance to finally play around with HDR (High Density Resolution) photography. It's a great processing technique that allows photographers to display scenes like people really see them - with multiple areas of light. Basically - your eyes don't simply lock into a single focal point, rather they run across the various lit areas - much like you might look at a scene.

The first pic I chose to work in was taken in Randsburg, CA - an old ghost town near a goldmine, that still has folks living there. It's a cool place - when you live in LA, it's easy to forget weird little gems like this exist in CA.

The HDR was relatively simple to pick up, thanks to a great tutorial by Trey Ratcliff. It's on the intermediate-to-advanced Photoshop scale and requires some extra plug-ins - but the results from his tips are excellent... and quick. Hope you enjoy - I will be playing around with this quite a bit in the coming months!