To answer, yes... I jumped over to your site and see we share a lot in common. Here's my link to show you what I mean.....I think we live in the same corner of the world.
http://www.pixoto.com/beinbalance

I've had very good success with PT Gui software. Just google them and head on over to there web site. They offer 30 trail, good support, fun and easy to use. I have the same camera. Sent a few samples of what I do. Have any questions ask away

Someone Shut The Dor


Calm Returns After Katrina


Green Lake in Blue Kight

Part of an on going series from ruralX, "Abandonment and Decay Of America's rural landscape"...

A child forgot there doll....


Our Future World....?


Abandoned home and child's swing.

your butterfly should meet my butterfly

one more reason to use essential oils as a bug repellant and stop the chemicals...if you think bug bug spray's and cameras are a bad mix, you should see what goes into your food that you eat or the hygiene products that yo put on our body....there's the real shocker

HDR, bring it on...as long as we all can be open minded, positive in our constructive criticism, original in our quest to create, why not HDR

Haul'in beer cans


Tribute To Thomas Cole


Sunset over the Katerrskill River

Linda,
if you can get PT Gui software the best switching software out there, plus there blog page is the best there is for support. If you really want to get out there, the Ninja Nodal pan head is the best on the market. and lens doing pans for years, wider for me was always better. 8 or 14mm worked for me really well. Fewer images to switched especially if you do 5 bracketed HDR images as I've been doing

a few questions, is a for Mac, or PC. Do you have a pay pal account? and from where I come from cashier/bank check is cash. Maybe you meant personal check. If it's available please email at futurefoods@gmail.com and we'll go it.
Thank you,
Bruce

Randy,
If it's still available, I'm interested. I assume it has all that was in the box. email to discuss pay pal or other forms of payment. I'm at... futurefoods2@gmail.com
Thank You,
Bruce

Joshua,
We were all beginner at one time or the other when we ventured into photography. So what I'm about to say should not be misconstrued as any negative comment. Your photo while not bad is not that good. Besides the flare, the tree form isn't all that bad either, but that's where it ends. The composition is off, the shadows and high light are out of register and the horizon isn't straight, not to mention the subject matter needs more impact. Now where do we go from here, My first recommendations, shot more, everyday, edit tight, find the one that really means that much you can live with it for the rest of your life. Remember, there's no right or wrong in this media. there's only better. Look at the "great" image makers, study them intensely, not to copy, but to be inspired. Then one day it will start coming together and you wouldn't be the same ever again. I hope you weren't driving as I was with the sample shot I'm sending. Yes it's out of focus, but the drama of the shapes is compelling, bold color, strange geometric patterns...and I don't recommend doing what I did, as it's very dangerous.

Just an idea on how to add drama to to a already dramatic event

If I jump in here on the best camera's for street work. In 45 years working the streets all over the world and after using 30 or more different types of camera's, my suggestions is simple...there all good. You just have to make what ever camera your using become an extension of your brain/eye and as Cartier one said, "be there" before the high point is reached, ready, aim, flame.....Now, what I'm currently using is the Lumix KX-5 with electronic view finder, Samsung TL 500 with a tip out screen, very handy in the street fools'em every time....for film, the best Leica killers out there, the Konica S3, Konica Automatic, Canon QL III, Minolta CLE with there Rokkor 28mm, super fast especially for zone focusing, ultra quiet, with stunning results. In the end, street is without a doubt the most challenging with the highest rewards when you get it "right"

If I may respectively note, you are entitled to your opinion. I would like to add to your statement about HDR. It's not necessary surreal unless it pushed to altered state on conscience. My feeling is a different description of HDR ... visual enhancement or another way is hyper realism, which now where splitting hairs. It's all good as long as we satisfy our need to express our creative need through this form of communication. Finally, for HDR to be be in it's own category, would be like only using salt and never knowing how much fun it would be to explore other spices when they were introduced to you, to explore into different areas, to open ones mind and try something new, exercise one's brain with new approaches to old subjects with a new spirit. That what photography and HDR represents to me. I'll keeping doing this medium as I've have been for 45 years and will not stop until the Lord tells me it's time to stop composing with my cameras.

Adding more fuel to the fire, All HDR, 3 panels toned mapped, in Photo Matrix Pro, enhanced in Topaz detail, adjust, B & W neutral density. Photoshop to finish up additional details. To those that have mixed feelings about HDR, I have one thing to say. It's a delicate balance between subjectivity and objective
thinking. It's all good. I'm gland that there's openness and FREEDOM of choice in all thing. Can you imagine if there was only "one way".. that's like never tasting any other spice but salt, boring.

Facing due west, Catskill mountain range in the B/G


Round Top, NY....where's my umbrella...

Greg, I apologize for another member jumping in to answer for me. I think your question was about what camera I used, not what software. To answer, all these images where done with a Canon XSi and a inexpensive 14mm manuel Bell & Howell lens, (which is the same manufacture as Tonkina, which is the same as Vivatar, which is the same as, you get the picture). Now, to help explain so there's no loose interpretation of what and how I do what I do. I make 3 exposures of the same scene, under, over, and in the middle. This is the beginning stage of the HDR pre-visualization I'm learning to develop with these new application. Then these 3 images are one, then taken into PhotoMatrix Pro for the next stage of the creative processe. Then into Topaz to create, the enhance HDR effect. Finally in Photoshop (CS3) to tweak other minor adjustment. It might sound complicated, but believe me it's not. The only thing difficult for me to adopt to is restraint, when to much or to little enough. It can be very abused, mis used and over the top in it's results.

I'm very please that I could motivate your comment, as it's the few things that bring pleasure into my life. If your interested and would like to see more go here. http://public.fotki.com/hitimes/40-years-of-looking/

there's a folder for HDR as well as other subject matter you might find interesting. Need more help, feel free to ask.
Bruce
I'm adding some more images done in HDR of different subject, hot off my computers pixels.

Nature Made, God Created series


Take Me To Your Leader...


All Board, The Magical Mystery Tour will take you away...