Having seen some HDR* photos on the interwebs, I thought I'd give it a go myself, here's the result of ten photos with around one stop between each one, taken from the field at the back of the house. Photos combined with the demo version of Photomatix (which does all the combining and tone correction automatically).
I should really have adjusted the shutter speed rather than the aperture (as that would have messed with the depth of field), and had to be manually fix some images as the camera's sensor burnt out some of the brightest bits resulting in a big green streak across the image - but you live and learn.
* HDR - High Dynamic Range imaging, unless you're living under a rock, you should have heard of this, if not; It's a method of getting more detail out of an image by taking multiple exposures of the same subject, with either different shutter speeds or aperture settings. Selectively combining these effectively brings out detail in shadows and highlights so you see everything in vivid detail. Looks artificial and computer generated, but I like it :)
