I took this while looking down a small alley in the China Town District of Victoria,  British Columbia. With the red brick and colorful signs I thought that an HDR shot might look cool. I’ve talked about this before, but basically it is taking multiple shots of the same image at different exposures, and then overlapping them digitally to create this “look”.

HDR stands for High Dramatic Range. Basically its the process of taking several photos of the same object at different exposures. You then combine, or layer all of the images into one photo. It can be done at several levels. I have seen some images that were made from 10-15 different exposures. At this point the images beginto look less like photos and more like paintings. I took these at my dad’s hanger on my recent trip back to Kansas to shoot a wedding (coming soon to the blog) All three of these were made from 5 different exposures. I then combined them in photomatix and tone mapped at different levels. If your a purest I guess this may be considered pushing the limits of true photography. I was just having a little fun.