HDR picture

I saw this website during this past week about HDR pictures. Those pictures look really cool. After reading through it, I realized that I should be able to do this with my camera. I investigating and found that the Photomatix software is free (it just puts a watermark on the picture). I attempted to take some pictures of the street corner last night when I got home "a bit" after midnight. I set up the tripod and had at it. There was barely any traffic that time of night, which made it go faster. Unfortunately, I was also tired. When I loaded the pictures on my computer, some were blurry and they had all shifted a little bit. Mike had told me that using the timer helps prevent camera movement, but apparantly I was too rough regardless. I combined what I was able to work with. Here's a before and after picture: Tonight, I busted out the tripod again and took some pictures around midnight. Unfortunately, there was a bit of traffic, so it took a little bit longer. (Side note: the amount of traffic tonight is more than you'll see during the middle of the day on a weekend downtown Milwaukee.) It looks like I did a surprisingly good job matching the frame of the scene to last night. Here are the before & after shots: What's really neat about this HDR effect is that it makes it look like a an artist's coloring. I'm going to play around with this a lot more. Some possible scenes: brightly lit window, hot spot on object from sun, reflection on my car. The ultimate would be to stitch multiple HDR photos together to get a nice wideshot or panoramic.