[HDR-photo] Introductions:

[Royce Howland]

Good idea on the intro's. :)

My name is Royce Howland, currently residing in Calgary, Alberta. By day 
I try to help organizations do successful, innovative software 
development, alternating between corporate IT and commercial product 
development shops.

In my off hours, and to preserve my sanity from the day job, I spend my 
time in nature photography and related pursuits. I'm relatively new to 
photography having started with digital a couple of years ago, and I 
consider that I've got a lot more to learn about the craft than I yet 
know. :) I initially came across the concept of HDR & tone mapping in an 
article at Michael Reichmann's Luminous Landscape site, and it had 
appealing potential that Photoshop CS2 did not live up to. Subsequently 
I found Photomatix and have been using it now for a bit over a year to 
augment my landscape photography.

I'm a forum moderator at Naturescapes.net, covering the digital 
photography and landscapes forums among other things. I wrote a fairly 
comprehensive piece on HDR/tone mapped landscape photography for the 
July 2006 edition of NSN. So far it has been relatively well received. 
I've posted some of my work at NSN but do not yet have a portfolio 
available on a site of my own. Several other folks at NSN are now doing 
good work with HDR & tone mapping as well, mostly in the realm of 
landscapes.

I'm glad to hear some others here are involved in creating new materials 
covering HDR, since there surely has been a dearth of practical, 
photographer-friendly info up to now. Kudos to Geraldine Joffre and any 
others involved in getting this list started, as I hope it will also 
become a valuable resource for folks doing serious work with HDR.

Royce Howland
Calgary, Alberta