Some newer high dynamic range images

We've been working on our HDR capabilities. I went out and bought a shutter release so that I don't touch the camera to fire it. That has seemed to help on avoiding the ghosting of some of my past attempts. Here are some photos from the newest attempts to master this new technology.

I think I'm beginning to get the knack of this stuff. For the above image, I merged only two images (spaced a number of F stops away) to get this image. Pretty nice, I think.

The next one is a combination shot. The interior is a single image shot with artificial flashes. The windows are a high dynamic range image. What do you think? Something's not perfect yet...still need to work on it, but it's looking pretty good, I think. Maybe just a tad cartoony.

The last one is really cool. It is also an interior shot with a flash, overlaid with a semi-transparent HDR image to give the furniture that ethereal kind of look. The windows are also HDR.

The last one has just the photo, but it has that sort of cartoony illustrative quality that adds a lot of punch. I think it causes some cognitive dissonance in me...the picture of the room is super-sharp, photo realistic, but the view to the outside is somehow otherworldy. Very fun.

Last one is a completely high dynamic range photo looking down the stairs. What do you think? Sort of of like a painting. Do you think it works? I did do a little touchup work on it to make it the final image.

These were created with photomatix to do the HDR work, then photoshop to assemble.

Magaret Hokkanen, Carlsbad Real Estate