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In a previous post I showed how you can make an HDR image from 3 exposures - which is considered the “proper” way to do it. However, I also mentioned that this is possible using only one exposure. This is done using the RAW file created by the camera (you usually need to enable a setting to make it do that). The reason for this is that a RAW file stores much much more colour information (hence the larger size, usually 3x that of the JPG for the same photo). A JPG can only store a limited amount of colour information (24 bits is around 16 million colours). Now, if you don’t intend on doing anything with the image, then keeping only the JPG file is just fine - since computer monitors can’t display more colours than that anyways. However, with good cameras, the light sensor is actually a lot more sensitive and captures more detailed colour information than that which can be described by a JPG file (ie. 16 bits per channel rather than 8). Using the additional colour information available in a RAW file, it is possible to recreate conditions necessary to make an HDR image.
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so I came back from Europe yesterday. Went to France and Switzerland, was really fun. I have close to 2500 (23.4GB) of pics from this trip (and I haven’t even transferred all of the ones from my other camera yet =/).

I obviously didn’t upload all of them cause that’d take forever but here are some of the ones I thought were best that I picked out - http://www.flickr.com/photos/weasel707/collections/72157607066362777/

Here are some of my favourites:

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower at Night

Louvre, inside

View from Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, highest train station in Europe at 3471m

Lauterbrunnen Waterfall

View of Lauterbrunnen Valley from Mannlichen / HDR

View of Wetterhorn near Mannlichen / HDR

View of Eiger, Monch, and Jungfrau from Mannlichen / HDR

View near Kleine Scheidegg

Sign Post near Kleine Scheidegg, Wetterhorn in background

Sunset in Bern, Switzerland / HDR

Zurich, Switzerland / HDR

And finally, my personal favourite:

Cow in Swiss Alps, near Mannlichen / HDR

Anyway there’s a lot more, those are just some of my faves. The best pics are probably in the Alps set, cause the Alps are really pretty. I’ve been asked for the high res (original) version of the pic with the cow in the mountains, here it is - Cow in Swiss Alps - Original Size (3900×2613).