Here's a great example:

Underexposed:



Normal:



Overexposed:




HDR:




And here's one I did with the Regal after some nasty storm clouds rolled through:

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Finished product:


And here's an example of a situation where HDR doesn't work:

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Outcome (manually done in CS3, not File>Automate>Merge to HDR):

 

I was so impressed with HDR I had to take my own shot at it, and it was an excuse for me to get a little dirty and pull out my new Canon Rebel XS... Tell me what you think! (Nice shot of your Blazer btw qtips.)

 

Not bad, sky's a little dark but overall pretty good.

 

thnx, it didn't look right with the sky brighter lol, not in my eyes anyway.

 

HDR is kind of tricky, I prefer using 3 differently exposed photos to make an hrdi, rather than one with photomatix.

 

I actually used 5 pictures at different exposures... i havn't had a chance to play around with it anymore.

 

Yeah the more the better

 

Here is one I just did now right quick. You can see the original image and the HDR image.

Now, I somewhat cheated with this and created 3 separate images from the original and changed the exposure on all of them.

The ideal setup is just what "TripleBlackBlazer" shows above. 3 images with low to high exposure is ideal. If your camera will take "RAW" images rather than "JPEG" then use RAW. Takes up more space on your memory card but the image will hold much more information to work with.

 

I hope you don't mind that I used your original non touched photo and made something of it

 

Here ya go
Again I cheated by just adjusting one image but at least it shows what can be done with HDR