Riverside, Pre Sunrise

This is Downtown Riverside prior to sunrise, well it may be after sunrise but the clouds took care of us knowing one way or another. I thought today I would show you why I love HDR (High Dynamic Range) photographs. The photograph above was made up of 3 photographs taken of the same scene at three different exposures. The three then got blended together to show what was in the highlights and the shadows of each one and bring out a greater tonal range. If I hadn't have used the HDR technique the photograph I would have ended up with is shown below. I'm sure you will agree when I say "I prefer the one above"?

These were taken from about 3/4's of the way up Mount Rubidoux last Saturday.