Candlelight stroll at Strawbery Banke

On Sunday, half a dozen photographers from New England Photo Expeditions met at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth for the museum's annual candlelight stroll. I took the opportunity to experiment with high dynamic range (HDR) photography. The image of the Tyco Visitors Center below is a composite of three bracketed exposures processed in Photomatix Pro. It attempts to capture the range of detail in highlights and shadows that cameras (at least the kinds of cameras we mortals own) can't record in a single exposure.

I'm not a big fan of the overprocessed and unrealistic looking HDR images you can see all over the photo sharing Web sites, but a more understated image like this one appeals to me. I'll be trying this again.