Encouraged by recent HDR successes, I took the scenic route home after work (having taken my tripod along) and tried to recreate early token HDR experimentation more seriously. The temperature is below 0 here at the moment and I couldn't feel my fingers by the time I got home. The tripod did its job but I got the photos onto my computer to find that the exposures (a number of them long, since this was after dark) all had massive streaks, specs, smears etc. from crap on my lens. Lesson learned: invest in a lens brush and look after your kit.
The other factor that makes the shots difficult is that I was in the city using my 11mm Tokina lens and the sheer number of lights in the location combined with the all-seeing lens made it very difficult to avoid profound lens flare. The lens hood may have helped to some degree on a few of the shots so I'll remember to take it with me next time.
So there we go: an evening of disappointing photos but lessons learned.
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