Allison and I went to go meet Tom and Julie, our friends who own this magnificent lodge in the Finger Lakes area. These pictures don't even come close to doing it justice. Tom restored the Sky Lodge over a two year period. It was dilapidated when he started. I tried experimenting with some high dynamic range photography. Here are the results.

This is one of the regular exposures of the Sky Lodge exterior at dusk.

This is the high dynamic range version of that same shot, combining the exposures from a nine step bracket series in one-stop increments. Notice there is more definition in the highlight areas as well as the shadows. I also corrected the perspective so that the tower isn't leaning in as much.

This is the normally exposed shot of the master bedroom. Note that the windows are totally overexposed as are the lampshades.

Here again, we have more definition in the highlights in the HDR version.

Non HDR version of the second bedroom.

HDR version.

Here's where HDR comes in very handy. This scene is must too contrasty. There is no way film or digital can capture such a high contrast range.

Here is the HDR version of that same shot.

This shot didn't require any manipulation or processing whatsoever. I got lucky!

Normally exposed version.

HDR version.

Normal exposure

HDR version.

Dining Room regular exposure.

Dining Room HDR.

Great Room HDR

Room HDR taken to the extreme