If there is one thing I learnd... Its that Renderosity has an awesome group of people!  Thank you all for the help!    I know I have a long way to go yet and if yall can put up with my crazy humor from time to time I'll be areound for a while :) I'll be sure to check out the challenge threads as well as other peoples galleries, I learned alot from checking them out.

BentChick <---- Love that :)    Just looked at your gallery for the first time....   Awesome!!!!

WaaaaHoooO :)   Thanks you guys!  

Really an awesome gallery! Way to go :)

Awesome Job everyone :)

Wow, I should have come here a long time ago! You guys are great!!! 

**Meisiekind:
**Yes, we are friends and I enjoy looking at you stuff, The pics I mean LOL  With that lovely red hair and big attractive smile I thought I should clarify that  :-)    Compositions? I agree, and I think there is more about the camera too. I love my Olympus camera but it does a good job of hiding things like shutter speed with presets. Instead of learning what settings I should use for a macro I just select the macro preset and shoot. Easy to get started but when you want more???

bmac62
I loved your Guard Dog pic, awesome :)  Olympus cameras are awesome! Composing I think is where I need the most work, its the little details that I seem to miss, then when pointed out I,m like "oh yeah" .

5 exposures, wow...  I think your a little futher along then I.  I use two 1 over 1 under, I seem to like it to be a little more under tho or just a little dark depending on the image. I may have to give 5 a try. Your image does have a LOT of texture, like I could reach down and pick up a leaf.

As far as HDR...  My understanding is its the differences or stops between light parts and the dark parts of a photo. In the old days I used layers in Photoshop to overlay images using soft light or vivid light ect...  I would think that  any camera that allows manual over or underexposure of a photo can be used to create HDR images.

Visually I love the HDR look and I have experimented with several different ways of doing it. I would think once you have an HDR photo... its HDR, or merging two HDR photos will produce yet another HDR photo.

I also think its inportant to say that (for me anyway) it shouldnt be over done. The photo should look real or at least somewhat real. For example above is one of my HDR's

Just my thoughts :)

Thanks you guys,   I'll do my best...  To have fun that is :)

Holy Polka Dotted Butterflies :)   Thank you!

I'm honored, Thank you :)