High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

I first discovered a digital photographing technique called "high dynamic range (HDR) photography" back in September 2006. Unfortunately, our camera then didn't really have the feature required to make it easy to use this technique. This Christmas, Dayna and I decided to get ourselves a new camera as our "big gift" -- the Canon S5 IS. It has the crucial feature called "automatic exposure bracketing" (AEB) that allows one to take a series of photos at different exposure levels. Afterwards, you can run the photos through a software and create an end result that looks like this:

The above is a shot of the front of our house. Compare that to the "point-and-shoot" version below:

Check out these other amazing photos on Flickr here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/realhdr/pool/