High Dynamic Range

I really don't know much about it. I jumped to downloading Qtpfsgui and playing with it rather than reading everything about it. If you want to read more it looks like these might give some good insight:

High dynamic range imaging on Wikipedia

A post on photonovice.net

PopPhoto.com's How to Create High Dynamic Range Images

The Luminous Landscape tutorial on merging to HDR in PhotoShop CS2

Here are some examples (a couple which I have set to display on my photoblog at some point in the future)- there are a lot of settings one can pick, so you don't have to go as over the top as I probably have.

The kids track shoes





One of our dogs (Copper)



3 different versions of the Missouri State Capitol