Washington DC Photos-15

Washington DC Photos-15
Originally uploaded by schauba

This is one of my attempts at HDR photography. I think you must be careful with HDR or it gets tacky in a hurry. I'm thinking of those shots that seem to include a halo around every object in the picture.

For this shot I kept it simple. I just did a bracketed exposure at +/-2 stops and ran the three images through Photoshop's HDR tool. When I converted image to 16-bit I choose the "Balanced Histogram" option. This looks like mostly like the WWI Memorial when I saw it, i.e. sans halos.