Hi. I'm afraid personal life has got in the way of me getting to a pc to blog. Sorry. I've been heavily involved with the Barber Room project, taking over as church liaison in Jon's absence. It was very interesting meeting the archaeologists and seeing them work. Taking photos of the work carried out was quite difficult though, as the recent hot weather meant deep, dark shadows against over bright highlights. Do you expose for the shadows and lose the highlights, or expose for the highlights and lose the shadow detail? Or perhaps a half way point and get dull photos, with no real distinct detail anywhere? Enter HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. Have I got into this in a big way ! The concept is simple really - you take three photos of the same subject, exposing for the shadows, mid and highlights (setting your camera for 1 f-stop either side of your normal reading). You then take the detail from the shadows, the detail from the highlights and the details from the mid range and combine them into one photograph. Sounds complex? It would be, except that Canon's 'Digital Photo Professional' does all of the hard work for you. An excellent product that comes free with an EOS lens (as far as I understand). Just make sure that you have the latest version, available from Canon's website. Photos should be on the website soon. I also want to try this technique out in my general photography too. I can't wait to see the results. I'll let you know it goes. Have any of you used HDR?