This will probably come off as whining but I just didn’t have the time today to explore with the camera.  I ended up searching the house again for a subject to photograph.  What I ended up using was our Olszewski Disney Gallery of Light shadow box of Snow White Kissing Dopey.  I chose not to try to photograph the entire piece but focus on the inside scene.

Due to the lighting conditions inside the box I once again used a 3 exposure bracket and combined them using Photoshop Elements photo merge exposure option.  It isn’t the same as a dedicated HDR program like Photomatrix but it gets the picture most of the way there and then I just need to tweak it.

The manual tweaking just wasn’t working for me.  I turned to Topaz Labs Adjust 5 filter to apply a ‘Photo Pop’ HDR effect to increase the detail  and bring out the colors more. The light inside the box produced a hot spot in the center of the picture which I adjusted out slightly by decreasing the brightness locally.

Tomorrow I need to return to a more typical picture.  I’ll have more opportunities as I am taking my son back to college and it will be a 3 hour return trip by myself.  Looks like I’ll be bringing the camera and spotting places to stop on the drive out.