A little HDR photography in Paris

I started experimenting a few days ago with High Dynamic Range photography (HDR). Basically, you take a number of images at various different exposures, then stitch them all together into one photo. The idea is that you are able to capture the image as your eye sees it, rather than as the camera normally sees it (the camera will often let you capture the sky or the scenery, but not both, because the exposure setting is so different for each). What I found was that HDR tends to play interesting games with your photos, especially at night. A few of my favorites are below. You can check out the rest here.

A view across the Seine of the Conciergerie where Marie Antoinette was held before she was taken to the guillotine.



Fabien driving near the Hotel de Ville (city hall) after dark - the third in the series of photos moved, so the lights streaked, to very cool effect:



Chatelet metro station, on the way to Marcus' place:



Marcus' art studio:



An HDR look at the Arts et Metier metro stop:



More Arts et Metier:



HDR Marcus:



In this one, below, I started playing with the notion of not letting my software stitch the photos together, but rather using photos of the same subject where the subject is in motion. I thought this shot of a new Australian friend was interesting:



Here's another version of one of the photos above, where I also didn't let the software merge the photos together before applying the HDR conversion:



Marcus putting the cheese away:



Folks on the phone near my favorite pizza place in the Marais:



Chatelet metro again: