The Texas State Capitol is where I typically take my HDR workshop students for the practical part of the class. It’s an ideal location – great access, plenty of cool things to photograph, interiors and exteriors, and some truly tricky high dynamic range scenes to capture. The interior of the Senate Chamber is a great place to teach about wide bracketing since the windows are open and the view through them is so much brighter than the interior lighting that you absolutely have to bracket wider than your camera’s automatic modes will allow.
I’ve photographed in here many, many times but on the last class, I was inspired by (copied from?) some of the students who saw new angles that I had missed on all my previous visits. This is one of those angles and I credit Dan Slutsky for coming up with this picture idea first. Thanks, Dan!
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Just posted the roof of Montana’s Capital building a few days ago. Nice shot!
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Amazing catch, Dave!
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Thanks for the comments!
Joseph, HDR is a collection of techniques, not a particular look. I’m positive you see many, many images every day that are produced using HDR techniques but which don’t look odd and don’t stand out. In this particular case, without using HDR, the highlights in the centre of the light fixture would have been completely blown out. Using HDR, I can bring some detail back into that area while maintaining the levels in the rest of the image.