From Don Peters/ DPA instructor in Chicago

To view more of his images please visit http://digitalphotoacademy.com/portfolio/donald-peters/

Nothing says “old and elegant” more than Charleston, S.C. in the springtime.  This Southern church yard seemed to want to communicate that, but I felt something more was needed. So, I made an “HDR” image, using the menu setting on my Nikon to capture 5, rapid fire images at slightly different apertures.  This enabled me, with the use of post processing (Photomatix) software, to produce a “tonemapped” image, yielding a much broader range to the image, capturing the extremes of the lightness of the flowers and the darkness of the tombstones and surrounding shadows.  . (Nikon D300 (handheld) with 18-200mm Nikkor lens at 100mm, ISO 400, 1/500, 5 exposures bracketed +/ .7 f stop, then post processed in Photomatix).