Peter Gorges' photostream Pro User

This is a historical windmill in the center of Bremen, Germany where I live.
The RAW files are 5 years old and you can find the old version in my PhotoStream), but I revisited them to see if 5 years more experience and the new versions of my tools make a difference.
3 exposures processed in Photomatix Pro, color/sharpness as always courtesy of Nik Software.

This is a 7-exposure HDR of Bremens town hall from 1409.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Hall_of_Bremen

The extreme 10mm wide angle also shows the Cathedral as well as parts of the Parliament.

Another shot of Oscar-awarded film composer Hans Zimmers out-of-this-world studio.
Hard to believe, but it takes HDR to capture this room - conventional camera sensors fail miserably. The whole room is just dark, light-absorbing surfaces (velvet, wood) and a few pointed light sources. There's no way to just "take a photo of it".
This image is created from 6 exposures (0.7 bracketing), processed in Photomatix Pro, with tons of subtle manual color and light corrections in Niksoftware Viveza, and some Nik Sharpener Pro.

Taken today - I got to spend some time here all by myself. Been here a hundred times but the place still has the same effect on me that Cathedrals had when I was a kid.

7-exposure HDR, mapped in Photomatix, treated in Niksoftware Color Effects.

View "Original size" for full detail.

"Storing" one of my favorite modular synthesizer patches via an image - because there's no other way. My cat chilling on her favorite chair in front of the big monophonic monster was just a nice coincidence.

Stitched from 4 images using PhotoMerge.