Originally Posted by onehundred80
Good camera's are not needed to take good photographs, the old brownie's were capable of great shots. The first photo here is not balanced and the second is a multi-layered picture like the first one in this thread, with actually more layers than the first.
Actually, they were both taken with a nikon d300. I think the first shot (used 2 off camera flashes) is plenty balanced. It is directly out of the camera.
The second is not an hdr photo, as you suggest. I beleve my bud over exposed the photo, and used the shadow/highligh tool in photoshop to quickly correct it.