Good Monday (or Sunday evening, since I'm a little ahead of schedule) - hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend. Today instead of the Monday Morning Ten, we have a Monday Morning HDR. The shots below were taken just after sunset on Sunday in the Manassas Battlefields here in Virginia. I've had a few friends ask what goes into making an HDR photograph, so I've also included the 9 exposures that were combined to make the image below using Photomatix Pro.
These were all taken with a Nikon D3, with a Nikon 24-70mm lens using a tripod (obviously...)
Aperture was set to f/16 for as much depth of field as possible. (You'll see I sacrificed DOF on the last few shots by opening up my aperture, in order to reduce exposure time... it was starting to get cold!)
1 second @ f/16
2 seconds @ f/16
4 seconds @ f/16 (FYI: With the naked eye, this looks pretty close to what I could actually see)
8 seconds @ f/16
15 seconds @ f/16
30 seconds @ f/16
30 seconds @ f/13
30 seconds @ f/7.1
30 seconds @ f/3.5
