This is a stainglass window in a gallery running between Thames Hall and Sommerville House at the University of Western Ontario. The picture is an HDR composite from three images.

This architectural detail featuring maple leaves forms the bottom of a moulding that frames a window arch on a building at the University of Western Ontario. It is a recurring feature on all the buildings at the university built in the neogothic style. This is an HDR composite from three images.

A winter view  the imposing edifice of Middlesex College at the University of Western Ontario. This picture is an HDR composite from three images.

Picture of the gorgeous, Gothic stain glass windows of Conron Hall in University College, the oldest building at the University of Western Ontario. Conron Hall is without a doubt the most beautiful lecture theatre on campus; for a second, you will be forgiven for thinking you have walked into Hogwarts. The picture is an HDR composite from three different images.

This is my second HDR picture, also of Niagara Falls. Hope you like it! I spent an hour tweaking and pushing sliders around in PhotoMatix, a programme that makes HDR pictures, to optimise the result, and then some more time doing post-processing in Lightroom. This one was composed of three different pictures, but unfortunately, they too were JPEGs.

I wanted to try out making High Dynamic Range (HDR) images, which seems to be all the range these days. HDR imaging is characterised by capturing a wider rage of colours. In other words, the HDR picture I have made here is able to show details in both the highlights and the shadows. Normally, of course, there would far more clipping in both the highlight and shadow areas – they would be either completely white or completely black. If you are interested, you can read more about what HDR is here; you can see examples of HDR pictures here; and you can find a lot of HDR resources here.

This HDR is my first try, so it is far from perfect. It was made of only two pictures that I had lying around from my last visit to Niagara Falls – JPEGs at that, which contain less colour information than camera raw. For optimal results, I gather you should use at least three raw files with three different exposures to capture both the highlights, midtones and shadows. More HDR pictures will follow.