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To give a ‘different’ perspective I decided to take this picture from inside of a cave on way to top of dent de crolles (2062m), a mountain in France. But the situation turned out to be a classic case of ‘where there is will there is limitation’. That’s right, the camera sensor failed to capture a high dynamic range of the scene. The 'stone' in the foreground turned into an anonymous black object, while 'snow' on the ground looks to me like a pile of ash or something. This is the place where HDR photography could have been extremely helpful, but I had no time to pull out my tripod, mount the camera and shoot three or more times asking all the fellow trekkers to wait for me. Shooting three exposures for HDR in my beloved Nikon d60 means headache (perhaps toothache). Yes, there is no autobracketting; I have to do everything manually by tuning the shutter speed. Any movement of camera or subject in the process will ensure the entry/comeback of GHOSTS. But this camera is worth its price :). Recently I read in a book that the ‘only camera capable of capturing truly high dynamic range in one shot is German made SpheroCamHDR’ . Apparantly, its price is the vicinity of ‘If I win a lottery’, at least for me. Not trying to prove grapes are sour but I think there is more fun in making photos where more of us is involved. The "more of us" could mean anything from imagination to composition to editing to post processing to choice of aperature to shutter speed to focal lengths to ISO...phew!!! I have met a few souls who use stones, logs and any flat surface that could be remotely used as tripod to make wonderful pictures. That could also be seen as involvement, in my humble opinion.