create illustrative photography

If you are not yet familiar with HDR (high dynamic range) photography, here are some images and tools to pique your interest. An HDR image is photographed using a range if exposures that are then converted to form a composite. The resulting image provides a more complete range of information than a conventional image and gives the artist far more control over the range of shadow and light, the manipulation of color, and the application of effects. So much more control that I think of some of these examples as more illustrations than photographs.

Pete Carr's tutorial for creating composites using a conversion tool called Photomatix...
Here > http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/

Ryan McGinnis's tutorial for creating composites using Photoshop...
Here > http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html

More example by Michael Seljos...
Here > http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2109184567&size=l