(In case you aren’t familiar with HDR photography, check out this tutorial)

I messed around with the Nikon this morning and learned a lot about exposure and such.  There’s a ton to learn but it’s actually really interesting to me.

Here are two example photos.  On the bottom is the one that is HDR merged from Photoshop.  I definitely need to learn more about editing the photos in there but at least this time I learned how to export it as a jpg.  Had to adjust from 32-bit to 16-bit.  I guess this means the amount of data (in bits) stored in the actual image file.  I think 32-bit is just too much data for a jpg to contain so Photoshop wouldn’t even let me save as jpg until I made it 16-bit.

On the top is the middle of the 3 photos (0.0 exposure).  I’ve included it for comparison as it is pretty much the regular shot I would have taken before all this HDR stuff.

In comparison, the HDR (bottom) does have better color in the highlights of the plants, but the laptop is totally washed out.  Oh well, got some more experimenting to do I guess, but this is fun!