Portrait of a truck

Seeing this image on a computer screen can't possibly do justice to how good the prints look, but here it is anyway. It's a high dynamic range portrait of a new truck done for the proud owner, Port Services of Invergordon.

The reason for using the HDR technique is, frankly, because the weather was horrible and I needed to do something to make the image pop. (I'm not exactly cheap so when I'm hired to do something, the client expects it to be done. Bad weather is no excuse.) Here's a single unedited exposure to prove the point:

It was raining quite heavily and the most time-consuming part of producing the final image was digitally removing the streaks of rain from the sky. And with four exposures used to make the HDR, there was four times as much rain! Took several hours. I dread to think how long it would have taken to remove the rain streaks from the truck, but if you view the large version then you'll see that I left them as I thought they looked nice how they were.