Canon 400D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 lens - 5exp (1.6-20sec), f/8, ISO 100

As promised, here is my pick from yesterday's early morning shoot. There seems to be something about HDR that can turn an ordinary picture into somthing magical without too much effort.

If you look beyond the pier you will see a smear of lights which was the boat that appears in other pictures. I left it in to illustrate how long this one took as the boat was travelling very slowly.

You may also have noticed I've borrowed a naming convention from Thomas Hawk, that is "Plate 1", "Plate 2" etc because I take a lot of photos of the same thing and need some way to differentiate them.

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Canon 400D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens - 8exp (1/4 to 120 second), f/16, ISO 100

It took a while but I finally finished processing the remaining honeymoon pictures. This was our suite at the hotel. It was taken from the window in order to get as much "room" as possible in the frame.

Like lots of my recent stuff, it is HDR. I'm starting to get the hang of it - like most post production the trick seems to be don't overdo it....

Canon 400D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens - 7exp (1/250 to 0.8 second), f/16, ISO 100

I'm currently sorting through thousands of wedding and honeymoon pictures so this is just a taster. It's an HDR of the resort beach on Desroches Island. More to follow soon...

Canon 400D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L lens - 9 exp (1/80 to 1.6 second), f/16, ISO 100

This is another HDR photo but I'm much more pleased with the way it turned out compared to the last one. I think the sunset photo was plagued by in-camera noise from the low light. The other main difference between this and the last is a small amount of Photoshop tweaking after the HDR process - the tyres are darker, alloys lighter and a monotone tint. Only the car itself is HDR as I cut it out and placed it on one of the original exposures.

I love the way the HDR aspect makes the car look almost silver. I probably should have given it a clean though.

Canon 400D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L lens - 7 exp (1/5 to 3.2 second), f/16, ISO 100

This was the sky outside of my study last night in HDR form. I used Photomatix to blend 7 exposures taken at different durations. I've tried HDR photography before with Photoshop but this is the first time with Photomatix.

I'm happy with the result but my tripod was at full stretch and it slipped slightly during the sequence which Photomatix then had to correct for so the image loses a bit of definition.