Joe Rule

The latest exercise for photography class was on HDR (High Dynamic Range). The process involves taking several exposures using a tripod, then combining the images to create a 32 bit image that contains data from the darkest darks to the brightest brights.

I had many problems with the combining process in Photoshop. There were random lens flares scattered around the photo and areas of chromatic abberation. If I used the "remove ghosts" option, the color appeared to only have 8 bits. So, after some cloning, healing and adding/removing exposures this is the result. I would like to experiment more with HDR in the future to hopefully refine the process and eliminate whatever caused all the problems.