HDR Norwegian Fjords

When you think of an HDR photo, you generally picture a big, expensive DSLR and a lot of post processing.

That’s generally true, but this amazing photo was captured using a compact camera. OK, so that compact camera happened to be the rather sexy Panasonic Lumix LX5–which can handle bracketing and RAW photos–but, nonetheless, a compact it is.

I had to jump down a bank to get to this angle, but I knew it would be worth risking my life the minor effort in the end. I took three shots, one with normal exposure, one under-exposed and one over-exposed. I then used Photomatix to blend the three together into an HDR shot, and finished off with some minor tweaks of contrast and saturation using Color Efex Pro in Aperture.

Not bad for a non-DSLR, don’t ya think?

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