If you can’t tell by now, I’m a big fan of Trey Ratcliff of StuckInCustoms.com. Of his work, his methods and thoughts on photography.

After getting my DSLR camera, a Nikon D80, I was taking family pictures, travel pictures, and many many pictures of my daughters softball teams. I think I had gotten quite good at taking the action shots of the players and enjoyed upping my level of skill.

So after my daughter finished playing softball in high school I started looking around for something else to master with my camera. While looking around I stumbled across Trey’s site and saw the HDR Tutorial and it peaked my interest.

For those who don’t know what HDR is, in its simplest description, it is a way to combine multiple images into one to show the full range of light in the photography similar to what your eye sees. In a single picture taken by any camera, the full range of light captured is alway much less that what your eye is actually able to see as your eyes can see a greater range of light from the dark to the light areas of the scene. Tray’s tutorial describes HDR it in more detail.

So if you are looking for one way to improve on your photography to get more detail into your photos, start where I did and check out the free tutorial.

HDR Tutorial – High Dynamic Range Photography Tutorial.

I’ve finally changed the Domain settings so I guess I”m now live on the internet at markdoddphotography.com

I’m sure I’m going to be making changes as time goes on.  I guess this will always be a work in progress as I’m the type of person that is almost never totally happy with things and am always tinkering.

But for now, Welcome.