After some of my recent travels I regretted not capturing bracketed exposures of some of the more beautiful areas I’ve visited. I’ve always been a fan of the more subtle HDR uses, and wanted to give it a try with some of the scenes I’d visited. Remembering that the 550D saves a 14-bit RAW file (enough for ±2 stops of light), I figured that an HDR image of some sort could be extracted. I read up and saw that this pseudo-HDR technique was indeed possible, and in fact there are Flickr groups dedicated to it. It took a bit of experimenting to find the correct technique to give a pleasing final image, but I’m reasonably happy with the outcome. Here are a few of the results:

I also wanted to revisit a panorama I’d created but lost after my laptop was stolen. I wasn’t sure of the best workflow for creating an HDR panorama, but I decided to batch process the individual images with the same HDR settings and then stitch them in Photoshop.