Solar Heating and Lighting

This is one of my HDR shots from 2011… the range of light from the sun-drenched white clouds to the deepest shadows in this building was too great for a single exposure to capture. It was too cool of a setting to pass up, so I used the three-shot bracketing on my old 5D Mark II to capture exposures for the sky/exterior, interior, and deep shadows.

This is on an abandoned ranch not far from Mono Lake. I first uploaded this to G+ back on August, 2, 2011. It was interesting going back to an article on producing good HDR results that I wrote back in 2007 and seeing how much of the advice still applies. Here's One I wrote in 2011:

HDR-Friendly Workflow, Using Adobe Lightroom for Realistic Results
"Now that HDR has been on the market for a few years, it seems like there are many people who didn't like its early output, and there are others who did and use it all the time. The assumption seems to be that you either like HDR or you don't, it either worked for you or it didn't. There's a third camp of users who were able to wrestle HDR into submission and use it lightly in a realistic manner when useful, and perhaps create something wild from time to time as well. My opinion is that Photmatix 4.0 is far enough ahead of past versions in functionality and ease of use that it is worth a try, regardless of what you may have thought of HDR software or its results in the past."
…continued on my blog:
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/03/hdr-friendly-workflow-use-lightroom-34.html