not sure if it is HDR, but its a heck of a cool picture

 

nice photo! Its tough to really notice the effects HDR processing has on a black and white image though as usually HDR photos feature very bright and vivid coloring (thanks to being able to capture both the extremes of light and shadow in the same image... you get more intensity with that) so I would suggest trying again and leaving it as a color photo, then posting that up. We will be able to help/critique the processing much better that way.

 

are hdr photos only able to be taken with a DSLR?

 

Don't hold me to it, but im going to say no.

HDR is about tone mapping, and accenting various tones from different exposures of the same picture. With my point and click I can take the same picture at a few different exposures, but im not sure how good it would come out in HDR. Basically I feel it comes down to the editing, because the computer is what really makes the image HDR once its all done.

 

"Real" HDRs yes as it requires the same picture to be taken multiple times with bracketed exposures (depending on the actual pic I tend to like either 1/2 step or 1 step different exposures), however its possible to use programs like photoshop to adjust the exposure of 1 image 3+ times and then merge all the adjusted images to an HDR.

So I guess short answer is yes, long answer is no? lol.

 

There are quite a few non-SLR's that have exposure bracketing features. My Cybershot has it.

 

oh, very cool, I was unaaware P&S cameras were offering that. In that case it is possible to shoot "real" HDR images with a point and shoot camera if it has exposure bracketing features.

 

Continuous high speed shooting is another useful feature if you wish to bracket for HDR. I may be wrong but I don't think many P&S cameras offer this.

 

What's an HDR? I don't see anything special with that picture. Can someone explain what is supposed to stand out?