HDR

High Dynamic range, gives you more highlights in the shadows and more definition in the lights. Essentially the best of both an under exposed shot and an over exposed shot in one picture. I recently discovered Photomatix a very powerful program for combining over and underexposed shots to give such a result.

There are many, many effects that can be given using this program, producing a whole plethora of results.

I have only had it for about 2 hours so here are my very first attempts the shot before and the shot after:

I was going for the grainy/gritty/grunge type look and I was fairly pleased

Took an over exposed, washed out image and added a bit of dynamic range :)