I had the pleasure to shoot a few of my classmates for a project some while ago. At some point, the light was simply to good to not take a few portraits on the side.
A week ago, I decided to drive up a mountain in the morning. I was a bit late, so I didn't get the chance to photograph glorious sunrise, but I got some nice shots anyway.
HDR is hard to use in a subtle way, at least for me...
I downloaded some Lightroom-presets from these guys, tweaked them a lottle to suit my needs and came up with this. Yeah, it uses every cheap trick in the book. I still like it.
I wanted to get some more practice with my flashes, so I took my dad's road bike out for some shooting. please note the ghetto-ish stand setup, two rolls of tape do the job.