I got interested in HDR a few months ago after seeing some of the awesome photos at http://www.stuckincustoms.com/ and thinking that I would like to be able to do that! 

The idea is that a photo can never truly capture everything that you would see with your eyes. This is because your eyes continually adjust to differing light levels allowing you to see the whole picture. Unfortunately with a camera you choose your settings and take the shot meaning that you often loose detail either in the dark parts of the picture, the light parts of the picture or both. HDR is a method of taking and combining multiple pictures at different exposures to try and capture the image like your eyes would. 

I have tried it a few times with varying degrees of success (from no success at all to a little bit, nothing has blown me away yet!). Anyway here is my latest attempt taken inside a small church on the 'isla de pescatori' on lake Maggiore, Italy. 

Here are the originals:

This is my first attempt at combining them using Photoshop

So I thought it was all a little too 'yellowey' and had another go. This is my second attempt at combining them using photoshop

I still need to work on the technique of taking and combining the photos … but at least think I am starting to get somewhere, maybe!