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Photographer Davide Lomango from Vercelli, Italy has done a nice job showing the power of HDR techniques by showing the detail in the dark areas of this ancient building without completely losing the outside detail.

Grazie per questa bella immagine Davide.

Keep those entries coming. We'll try to feature at least one new photo every day.

Shooting interiors with lots of natural light in the scene from windows is a great use of HDR techniques. This contest entry from Dennis Hill really shows off this type of photography. Way to go Dennis!

What a wonderful response we're receiving for our HDR photo contest! We're received some great entries in the first twenty four hours. Here's a tranquil and somewhat surreal scene from photographer Dennis Hill. Thanks for your entry Dennis. Great work.

No matter your skill level, it's time to submit your favorite HDR images to the Unified Color HDR Photo Contest. It's simple. Pick out your best HDR images, re-size them to 72 ppi in .jpg or .bef format (no wider than 900 pixels) and email them to us. It's that easy!

We love getting great photography when our favorite photographers are on the road. Stock photographers Julie and Terry Eggers are on a tour of Belgium and The Netherlands right now. They're using HDR Express 2 which is important to them because of it's natural results. We love these three images by Julie from Brugge, Belgium.

Any photo trip to the Netherlands wouldn't be complete without an image of a windmill. Terry and Julie Eggers didn't disappoint. We love this image, processed in HDR Express, for it's subtle color palette and the wonderful reflection.

So many of us dream of being travel photographers. Terry and Julie Eggers are living that dream and taking as many photo trips each year as most people do in a lifetime. This month the Eggers are visiting Belgium and the Netherlands.

Here's a beautiful HDR photo taken in Brugge, Belgium just two days ago.

We usually get a nice charge when we browse through the HDR photos on Flickr. We came across this beauty of the New York City Public Library in Manhattan. Shot by Betty Wiley and processed in HDR Express this image shows that Unified Color apps, which are known for natural HDR results, also do a killer job of creating the grunge look. Betty is an award winning photographer based on Cape Cod. Check out her site.

You know ISO refers to the sensitivity of your image sensor and harks back to the day when ISO 100 (or ASA 100 for you veterans) meant you had a fine grain film. In digital SLRs it is the setting that will give you the least amount of noise and artifacts. The lower the ISO the less noise and artifacts you will have in your photos. This is an important fact when you are merging three or more photos into an HDR file.

New to this discussion of ISO is the term "Native ISO". The folks at SLR Lounge do a great job of explaining the issue of ISO when doing HDR photography and toward the end of this video they explain "Native ISO".

The HDR shooting question we get most often is "how do I determine the exposures for my HDR bracket images?" You can make your exposure determination by trial and error or get a bit more technical and as a result, more accurate. Either way, developing a method you're comfortable with is essential. You really don't want to be fumbling around when the fleeting, perfect image is right there in front of you.

Here's a great little instructional article and video on exposure for HDR that will help you develop your own method on slrlounge.com