Does anyone have any tips for better HDR images? Also does anyone have any examples in your photo library? Here are my beginners...hehe.

My first one. Yay it's Hay. Hopefully I can achieve better results with future images to come.

Sometimes on a dull Saturday afternoon, all I need is my 1 month old pear }:- ) and my trusty NES enabled Iphone. Yay!

Sagebrush Montessori Academy had there annual invitational the other day, and it was quite a turn out. More importantly, I was amazed with the young students who not only have developed a second nature to riding these large animals, but respect, care and nurture them as well. The level of responsibility that is learned when tending to these large animals can be applied to everyday life tasks in general and at the same time, the children gain confidence and self awareness.






There are great things about a montessori program, especially the everyday life skills that are grown, learned and nurtured.





Racing is always fun, even moreso when
you have a horse stick assisting you in a friendly competition. If I had one of these beauties, I would name it Thunderfoot.

I guess it can be said on a clear day it can stilll be smoky...





Chaing gang smoking...

Bokeh, as in fool? Nay fellow Chexians! What was used in China is not relevant to this digital atmosphere. Instead, when applied to a lens, it refers to the pleasing quality of the out of focus areas of an image produced by the lens.

Such as:
Some people say luck, in my case, probably... since this photo was taken on a really windy day. Now, I do not know if this is the proper technique, but using a high zoom lens, I set the focus to manual and I zoomed in the most i could with the lense while I got the subject into focus, allowing the background to get that nice soft gaussian blur.

Here are some other examples, excuse the incorrect color spaces, those photos will be fixed soon.



The other thing you might notice is that i do this a lot with flowers. I have two caveats to this:

1. You will see that sunflowers will be used a lot in my photos since in my area of South Texas, they grow at a substancial rate.
   
   
2. It is so much easier to do this technique with flowers since they usually stay still.

Some more Flower-iffic examples:





Feel free to leave any comments or techniques you would like to share on how to achieve a similar effect.