New Photography

I thought I'd mention, that I've gotten a renewed interest in photography. I got a new camera (Canon Rebel XSI), and have been very pleased with the quality, even though I'm still only using the stock zoom lens. I can't wait to get some better lenses for it. But for now, I have posted a few images up at flickr. My photostream is here. Most of the images are taken as raw and tweaked using CS3's raw conversions. Really nice flexibility. One or two are HDR captures. They consist of 3 bracketed raw exposures at 2 stops difference each. Technically this is not HDR... more like MDR, but for some situations, it's all I need. Given the exposures are automated and hand-held, it's not a bad working process. For something critical, I would use a tripod and take more exposures. Here's one of my favorites.