HDR and digital photography

Vancouver HDR Landscape
Originally uploaded by Buffett Jr.

After casting about on Flickr for a while, I've come across something called HDR, or high dynamic resolution. This is a photograph consisting of several photographs - all of the same subject - which have been taken at different exposures. The result is a photo with a wide range between shadow and light. For example, if you shoot someone standing at an open window, you can expose for the person, which means the window will be overexposed, or you can shoot for the window, which means the person will remain in shadow. HDR takes both exposures and combines them for the best of both worlds. I was originally suspicious of the technology, but this article in the New York Times makes a good argument for it.