I was about to give up on HDR photos per my original test, but found out about a program called Photomatix Pro and gave it a shot.  Check out the results: Not bad, eh!  For comparison, here’s a regular photo of the same shot (what I normally would have produced before the magic of HDR) [...]

(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 [...]