Day 69: One Christmas House

I thought that it would be great for the next twelve days to try and incorporate a Christmas theme into this project. Today I found a house that I have admired to get a shot of. I love the light display, and thought that it would be a great HDR test. I thought that the rain was a bonus. At first you would think that rain would be horrible for a Christmas picture. What it did was give a nice reflecting surface to almost everything. I didn’t like some of my three shot brackets so I took three pictures here slightly overexposed, and quickly flipped over to underexpose three images. The three put together really seemed to work well. I really love how the front sidewalk turned out. On a normal day it would have been boring, but the rain really gave it some character. My only regret is that the lights are a little blurry. That is probably because I was sitting in my car hand holding the camera. I think that if I had used my tripod I could have had a much better picture. Overall though I think that this was a good first try at HDR lights. I am sure that in the next twelve days I might have another shot at lights, and knowing me lately I will shoot enough to try some HDR.