One-exposure HDR

I took this picture of an old barn yesterday but my second exposure for the HDR was way off so I made an HDR image with only one, underexposed photo. How did I do it? Since I was shooting in RAW mode, I made two copies of the photo when I processed it: one with a very high positive exposure adjustment. Then I merged them back into one photo in Photoshop. Kind of feels like cheating doesn't it?

After (above), Before (below)

Fixing a broken leg in Photoshop

I selected one person from each sports team for Fall sports here and with a little scheduling miracle I was able to get them all together for about five minutes to take this photo. It's not an HDR, and the only thing Photoshopped about it is the left leg of Dan, the football player (see below). The trick to the photo was that I scheduled it right at sunset hour on one of the few cloudy days here in Redlands, and I calculated all of my exposure and lighting powers ahead of time. The result was exactly what I wanted.

Before Photoshop:

After Photoshop:

28mm, 1/20", f/6.3 at ISO 640

From Shoot to Shop

Before:

18mm, 1/20", f/5, ISO 400

After:

Volley Scream

The Original... I have no idea what was going on either.

King Kong

Scream.

Shop it up.

For anyone having trouble coming up with a post-processing idea, this was my Photoshop creation two years ago. I'll let you decide what's real and what's not ;-)