A few weeks ago I popped up to Radwell Church.

As it happened it was a Sunday afternoon and I was working on the computer when we had a power cut. It turned out there were workmen up the road & the power was going to be off for a couple of hours. I took the opportunity to grab the camera & drive up to Radwell. I’ve visited Radwell Lake many times over the years, mostly with the kids to feed the ducks. This time I went on my own specifically to grab some shots.

I ended up at the church. I’d taken the tripod specifically to do some HDR shots.

HDR shots involve taking several different shots at varying exposures & then combining them later on the computer using special software. In this case the software is Photomatix.

For all shots on this entry I took 5 photographs which varied from 2 stops under-exposed to 2 stops over-exposed. I then saved them as JPGs in Lightroom. I then imported them into Photomatix 2.4 & the software more or less does the rest. here are a few settings & tweaks which you adjust to your taste and in the end it spits out a finished scene which has a High Dynamic range of tones.

You can download a trial copy of Photomatix at: www.hdrsoft.com