Soooo I did a quick search for "HDR" and it returned nothing that I was looking for, This is currently one of my favourite types of photography. I have a quick explanation which I nabbed from Wikipedia I believe.

"In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight."

---- Now basically you set up your camera to take 3 photos straight after each other of the same subject but with varying exposures. Simple. I bought myself a new camera (canon EOS 500D) on for my birthday (which was in January - happy birthday Operation I hear you say).
So I tried my first ever HDR shots which I will now share with you. I used Photomatix to combine the 3 images and tone map them. Then I exported them to Photoshop CS5 for a small tidy up.

These are photos of bark at my house in Togo. (Yes I have a house in Togo, lol)

Some more. I love the extra depth in detail and amazingly vivid colours that you get.

HDR makes such simple subjects so much more interesting. I now need to get out when I have some time and take some photos of Lagos to see how they come out.

Well for those of you who are apprehensive I've found a few of my favourite HDR Photographs from the guy who's work got me into HDR Trey Ratcliff.

one more His website is http://www.stuckincustoms.com/

He has a free tutorial which explains most of the fundamentals. Very useful, since I know so many of you are going to want to have a go, all you need is a camera which has an auto-bracketing function