Because I was including the sun in the image, the photo of Elm & Hitt street is composed of about eight pictures, and involved stitching and HDR blending. I shifted the lens up to get the skyline, and made four exposures for HDR. I then shifted the lens down to get more foreground, and made an identical four exposures. Each “set” of four exposures was then blended in Photomatix using identical settings. I then stitched the two HDR results in Photoshop CS3′s Photomerge. I added back a little contrast that the HDR blending took away with a slight S curve in Photoshop.

The second photograph on the post is straight out-of-camera.

I’m curious, does image #1 employ any HDR merging? That doesn’t look like an easy scene to properly expose.

TkB