After trying various software products I decided Picturenaught was the easiest to use and yielded acceptable results… and it is the right price….free….

I have uploaded the uncompressed original to my .Mac site

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As with most digital cameres the tiny little image sensor inside your camera and clever camera software decides what is a great looking picture, this means that scenes containing very bright and very dark areas cannot be effectively recorded, leading to the familiar problem of clipped highlights and/or shadows.

HDR photography to the rescue.

Here are some tips for successful HDR image creation. It is important that you don’t adjust your F stop or bracketing while taking your base photos if you can help it. Only vary the exposure time when bracketing. Use manual or aperture priority mode, and keep the ISO constant. White balance should also not be changed during the sequence of exposures. Take an odd number of shots with the middle shot using the average exposure of the image you want to capture, then shoot images up to -4 and +4 stops either side of the average frame. The final set of images are then taken into suitably equipped software to combine all the images and produce your final HDR Digital masterpiece. I have included some examples on my newly created Photo gallery page for you all to enjoy and download if you wish. I will start uploading various images the the Photo galley page so be sure to stop by regularly and enjoy a great selection of photos