I palyed around with hdr a while back, and quickly lost interest.
While I had some good results with low light, bad weather, and nightshots, I find the daytime shots come out too flat and artificial for my tastes.

they are ok esp#7

the statue image up top was the only one of these I'd have tried it with. I would've tried for bluesky, detial in the statue, then brought back some shadows along the walls and floor to give the image some dimension, and depth.

most likely though, I'd have exposed for the sky, and used two flashes (one difussed (shoot through umbrella, or paper chinese lantern) to light the inside 2 stops lower than the sky, and the other snooted and used to light the statue in a pool of light a half stop lower than the sky) a skipped hdr entirely....

Has anybody with some serious know-how looked at the computer?
by burned do you mean smoke and fire or just crashed and won't reboot?
Yank out the hd and stick into an external hd case?

I'm only asking because my experiance with macs, makes me the local go-to guy whenever people have mac troubles, and a few who were certian thier macs were DOA were surprised to find out a $7.00 pram battery, a reseated/replaced ram chip, and re-install of osx saves many, and there is a secret recovery button on the motherboard, that has on more than one occasion, brought back to life a completely dead mac, that wouldn't even try to start-up.

ps if your laptop truly is dead...

may i suggest you photoshop a hole in the middle of the keyboard, then paste the image into a photo of your bathroom toilet, and post that on the net somewhere to share your feelings about Dells products and service?

scientific fact:
Married men live significantly longer than single men.
common knowledge:
Married men are alot more willing to die.

Tell the kids you'll hire a nude model at the end of the emister, if they get thier asignments in on time....lol!

aperture. It's as if God created a software program just for me!

The first thing our photo instructor did was sit each student down for a digital portrait, so he could make up a sheet with our faces and names.

on the practical lessons, assign, don't ask for volunteers.....it is good for each person to have to model, for a bunch of different photographers, if only to get an understanding of how it feels to be the subject.

a pre-class lesson on theory, an asignment, time, to work on assignments, then a meeting up to discuss marked work.( with q&a critiques and comments. do not tell the class (make it a rule) who's work is whos during the review process).

I was sorta wondering how Mrs. Clarky puts up with the bugs, and the wierd camera, and the LBA, (I won't bring up the 'roo incident).... until I saw this recent article....link...now I see the genius in her methods!
If that camera rig doesn't frighten off the hordes of lonely aussie women.....the bugs probably will....

try both cameras with brand new memory cards?
new batteries?
maybe trade out batteries and memory cards and see if the other body slows down?

Well George glad to help. I used to study maritial arts.
I used to know quite a few Japanese words back then. Nowadays, I can't even order food off the menu at a Japanese restaurant, without getting slapped, by a waitress.

love it!

Oh great... Jihad Arachnids. A new Frontline....... in the War on Terror.
Now Bush will be dropping cans of Raid on third world countries....
I guess that's cheaper than gps guided missiles!

(just because I'm against Bush, and Harper for that matter, doesn't mean I'm against supporting our troops. If there is one thing you can't overlook it's this: There is apparently no shortage of "Anti-Western" retoric, over there, there is no shortage of weapons/explosives over there, there is an abundant supply of people will to commit suicide missions....... But no big bangs in my back yard. Somebodies doing something right.)