HDR is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of values between light and dark areas than normal digital imaging techniques.
Today we showcase our favorite examples of beautiful and creative HDR Photography.
The Ansonia by JeffrySG
Three exposure HDRI of “The Ansonia” an Upper West-Side Beaux-Arts style building built in 1899-1904.
Kuala Lumpur Nightscape by Ariffin
6xp HDR of Kuala Lumpur Nightscape.
Signs in Maragogi Beach by Omar Junior
Burano Venice by MorBCN
Old scene new tricks by Sean Mantey
This picture is a classic scene of the original Tyne bridges in North East England.
The Beauty of Venice by Last Rounds
Triumph Daytona by gngillies
Triumph Daytona 675 by Jazz Musician mural in the Fillmore Jazz District, San Francisco.
On Frozen Pond by Trey Ratcliff
Firetruck from Hell by Luda Arce
Firetruck from Hell! in HDR.
Old Dray by Zonifer Lloyd
An old dray just left in a paddock. This was taken between Quorn and Hawker in the north of South Australia.
Reflections of CBD by Daniel Cheong
Central Business District and Boat Quay, Singapore. Sunday morning at 7:45am.
Larry the Mechanic by Chris
HDR tend to have a gritty effect on portraits. Larry has impeccable grooming habits, when he isn’t allowing his beard to grown in for a weekend hunting trip. He had to sit very still while I manually adjusted the exposure for each shot. A tripod was used.
Canons of Corregidor by mindmurder
Dozer by Donald Fregede
Saturday by Die Skiing!
This was taken out of rage. Somewhere not far from here, my best friends are having the time of ther lives. damn homework.
Fazen by dorli
Apartments by JeffrySG
Three exposure HDRI of some apartments in NYC.
View from my Rooftop by TooMuch204
Frankenburger by Bryan Scott
Frankenburger at Niagara Falls, Ontario.
HDR Church by Omar Junior
In front of Igreja Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes Church Ours in the main square of the Itapuã Village, located in the city of Viamão.
Noble Jake by Blake Lipthratt
It’s a single exposure hdr with lots of PS processing.
Kiev Opera House by Trey Ratcliff
A Snowy Night at the Kiev Opera House.
Tokyo Tower HDR by R23W
Amazing photos taken at the most exclusive photography locations.
Arthur Brown
These are some awesome photographs.
Nov 15th, 2008
Alexius G
how were these taken? this is the first time i’m hearing about HDR photography, but i’m really impressed
Nov 15th, 2008
Kyle
Just an FYI, the one of the Kiev Opera House by “Stuck In Customs” is actually Trey Ratcliff, just like the frozen ponds picture. He’s amazing!
Nov 15th, 2008
Alex Linebrink
Cool list. Check these (much bigger lists) out if you’re in to HDR:::
Unbelievable HDR on Flickr:
http://www.thatindiedude.com/2008/10/inspired-3-hdr-photos-flickr/
Awesome HDR on Picasa: http://www.thatindiedude.com/2008/10/inspired-4-hdr-pt2-picasa/
HDR portraits from Deviant Art: http://www.thatindiedude.com/2008/10/inspired-4-hdr-pt4-portraits/
Nov 15th, 2008
Mandar
Very nice pics.
Nov 15th, 2008
Gil Bates
Most of these are awful.
You’d best leave it to the pros, kids.
Nov 15th, 2008
Robert Reynolds
@Gil Get over yourself.
Nov 15th, 2008
that guy
sadly I actually agree with gil, a lot of them do look like shit, but there one or two okay ones
Nov 15th, 2008
Ern
Yes, some of these are horrible. This ‘fake hdr’ trend is very sad. Completely ruins a picture when it overdone. Looks like some bad video game with crappy lighting effects. And leave the hipass filter alone!
Nov 15th, 2008
Kevin
“How are these taken”
Lock down your camera on a tripod. Take 7 photos. Properly expose the first one. Then underexpose the 2nd shot by 3 stops, underexpose the 3rd one by 2 stops, underexpose the 4th shot by 1 stop. Over expose the 5th shot by 1 stop. Overexpose the 6th shot by 2 stops, overexpose the 7th shot by 3 stops.
Once you have those shots you use your HDR plugin in photoshop or other applications made for HDR to merge the 7 photos together. You can then use sliders or curves to adjust how all the areas of the image are exposed. What you end up with is a photo where there is detail in all shadows and highlights.
Nov 15th, 2008
moosebreath
these are awful — terrible trend.
no offense to the artists meant. I appreciate every creative endeavor, but this are going to date horribly. They don’t look so great today, either.
Nov 15th, 2008
moosebreath
*these
Nov 15th, 2008
German Bauer
too much artifical sweetener
Nov 15th, 2008
steved
ok – once again – for REAL HDR you need an HDR display.
This fake HDR technique is just a hack. You can not be looking at HDR via JPG images on a regular browser on a regular computer. Think about it.
The real thing is great – I have seen it.
Nov 15th, 2008
Velvet Elvis
Why is there always some debate about what photography, “should” look like?
Nov 15th, 2008
Andres Pereyda
interesting. thanks for the explanation Kevin. i was just about to google “hdr” or “hdri”. i may still, because i want to educate myself as to what the acronym stands for. god forbid this becoming too popular and people actually making sub par examples. that would be worse than dropping bombs on iraqi children.
Nov 15th, 2008
Andres Pereyda
high dynamic range imaging
Nov 15th, 2008
Andres Pereyda
hdr should not be used to kill people.
Nov 15th, 2008
johnm
I agree with moosebreath. These picture looks so painting-like. Over-saturated and unreal to the human eyes. It somehow doesn’t look interesting to me.
Nov 15th, 2008
Jim
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I like all the hdr photos here because they do look surreal like paintings. The first time I ever saw an HDR photo on flickr, I thought someone had posted a painting. The photographer emailed me and told me what he had done. I was blown away.
Nov 15th, 2008
Mortum
The one before last is not Kiev Opera House, it’s Kiev Conservatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Conservatory
Nov 15th, 2008
~M
Well the trend is to make it look like an obvious HDR photograph, and that’s the thing that will probably become dated. More HDR should be done subtly so you’re not sure if its an HDR composite or not, except for when you compare it to an original frame which by comparison looks extremely dull and flat. Once you move past effect and into enhancement the true artistry of HDR emerges, the artistry of control of which we see very little. ~M
Nov 15th, 2008
Carl Geers
What you are HDR is in fact Tone Mapped. HDR would look terrible on a normal screen and would include the full dynamic range, which would be impossible to display.
The process is to shoot a number of exposures of the same subject then merge the exposures together to create an HDR image. Then this image is Tone Mapped to display on normal screens. Hope this clears up some of the mystery.
Nov 15th, 2008
ntopics
I like the Dozer by Donald Fregede best.
Very cool effect changing photos.
thanks from tony
Nov 15th, 2008
Adam
Not bad….check these out too…http://www.flickr.com/photos/damada2/sets/72157594527284518/
Nov 15th, 2008
terry
These are horrible. One is clearly a photoshop job too – using a photo of the US navy in Tokyo bay in 1945.
Fail.
Nov 15th, 2008
Diappo
90% of these pictures are way too overprocessed and simply NOT good HDR pictures.
It is true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but seriously… ugly HDR. Period.
Nov 15th, 2008
The Spotter
This is *NOT* HDR.
REAL HDR photos are MASSIVE data-wise even when they are small resolution-wise.
And real HDR is processed in lossless formats, NOT JPEG.
I do have an HDR screen (64-bit color, your regular LCD screen is probably 8 or 10 bit) and I do some actual HDR photography.
Of course, I do convert to JPEG for those that do not have an HDR screen, so they at least get a decent look at the image.
http://traintagspotter.deviantart.com
And I don’t even use Photoshop, which is too large, too bulky, and too slow. I have a program purely designed for HDR imaging.
Nov 15th, 2008
Kellie
@ Velvet Elvis
because being a good ‘photographer’ is different than slapping a bunch of photos together in photoshop that have been taken in different exposures and calling the final product ‘photography’. there’s a difference, although you need talent for both. the latter is not ‘photography’, it’s called ‘being good at photoshop’.
Nov 15th, 2008
skel
Some of those images would have been great had it not been for the overbaked HDR processing.
The only image that really benefits from the process is the motorcycle, in that it just makes it look shiny and slick. Even that image is kind of annoying to look at but not as bad as the others. That portrait is pure crap.
Nov 15th, 2008
Banjo Patternson
HDR is an imaging tool. Real or unreal it’s nice to have.
Nov 15th, 2008
Stefano
Awsome! Fantastic! Great!
Incredible!!!
Nov 15th, 2008
E
Not photography, but digital compositions. They make me cry.
Nov 15th, 2008
wallpapers
they certainly have a cgi render feel about them
Nov 15th, 2008
Omar Junior
The photo “Signs in Maragogi Beach” is by me, not Sean Mantey.
thanks for posting.
congrats from brazil.
Nov 15th, 2008
BonerBandFan
Fantastic Pictures! Love them! Awesome colors and contrast. Sureal. Humming. Electrifying.
Nov 15th, 2008
MIke
I like the potential of HDR but I agree with many here that most of these are just way over-engineered in Photoshop. I take HDR’s of landscapes using just three or five shots and that is to improve the colour, range, shadow and tones – not to make them look like a graphic artist has drawn them for some coffee table sci-fi book. I love Photoshop but I think too many people are taking seriously average photos then making them look good with software.
Nov 15th, 2008
Toxel.com
Kyle and Omar, we have corrected the mistakes.
Thank You for your comments!
Nov 15th, 2008
bret
for those saying they are bad because some look like paintings…are you suggesting that painting are a lesser form of art because they look fake? Yes some and most HDR’s are over baked, but many people like the look. Try it yourself and execute better, until then pipe down.
Nov 15th, 2008
bret
and if you want good examples of HDR then check out http://flickr.com/photos/artiephotography/
Thats for those of you saying HDR is dumb, takes no talent, etc.
Nov 15th, 2008
Byron Warwick.
Beautiful images.
Nov 15th, 2008
Trey Ratcliff
HDR is fun! One of my shots is above (the is Trey Ratcliff). For those of you interested, I have a free tutorial you might enjoy on how you can do this sort of thing yourself… it’s great fun… you can find it at http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/
Nov 16th, 2008
Michael John Grist
Excellent images- the canons over Corregidor amazing.
Nov 16th, 2008
TommyP
quite a good guide here – http://hubpages.com/hub/HDR-Photography-Explained–HDR-Cameras
Nov 16th, 2008
Emily
I thought the idea of HDR was to _mimic_ the way our eyes (and brain) process a scene. Imo only the bike and the phone are decent, the others are simply garish.
Nov 16th, 2008
MutedEcho
Can anyone point to a higher resolution version of the very top image of the little street? I would like to use it as a desktop wallpaper image to cheer me up, and it would be a great Christmas season wallpaper. :) Thanks very much in advance.
Nov 16th, 2008
Ignatz Horowitz
Hey, Kevin…neat how the “photographer” got all those airplanes to freeze in mid-flight so he could bracket 7 shots. Should would have looked less stupid if you’d have explained the work-around.
Dumbass.
Proper HDR shouldn’t look like a cartoon.
Nov 16th, 2008
Carlos
I can’t understand why people like this type of oversaturated, completely unrealistic pics.
HDR is meant to enhance photography not to distort it beyond recognition.
HDR can be well used with good results, so you guys and girls out there who are giving a look at HDR, don’t get dissapointed with these examples.
Nov 16th, 2008
Bunny got Blog
Truly lovely
Nov 16th, 2008
cloudkicker
I love these, sometimes you just see the world a little differently, like a heightend emotion and these are very expressive, just like that.
Nov 16th, 2008
Elan
i enjoyed
Nov 16th, 2008
Norm
These pictures are boring. Yeah it’s a nice effect, but it isn’t being used artistically. It just makes everything seem fake, like the digital backgrounds in the new star wars movies.
Im sure this technique can be used for good, but these pictures don’t show that. If you have the capability to make pictures look like this, do it because you think it will improve the picture, not just because you can.
Nov 16th, 2008
Abdurahman
If theres a lot of complaint about HDR technique and photoshop. Then what good HDR image look like? Can anyone give an examples ? The real HDR images without photoshop?
Nov 16th, 2008
Praip Shah
There is nothing realistic about any one of them. I am from the old school when the SKILL was king. Getting details in the shadows without washing out the high lights was a great learning experience.
Nov 16th, 2008
TJ Getz
I’m wondering the same thing Abdurahman, can anyone from this post send good examples of HDR?
I also agree that a lot of the above examples are a little to “candy-coated-sugar-fied” but their are a couple good ones in the mix.
I get the feeling there are a number of old school junkies writing on this post, and I must say I can relate to their sentiment about photography being a craft, but I also believe besides their relevant argument that some of the craft has been lost doing things “old school”, I get an undercurrent of fear that they can’t keep up and the industry is moving forward without them by combining more digital photography techniques than ever before.
I wish newbies would learn from the old school guys and the old school guys/gals would stop calling digital photography non-photography. We’re in a time of evolution, we should not fear it it, but learn the new tools in a craft-life manner just as the masters of “old school photography” did.
As I said, I see the digital photography as an evolution; just another style, not an end all. I don’t think it should entirely replace “old school photography” but at the same time, art and life does evolve.
Nov 17th, 2008
Chris
I created the picture “Larry the Mechanic”. It has been my most popular picture by far posted on Flickr. Clearly there is a need for increased tonal range in digital photography. Yes it is OVER THE TOP but the first camera company to do this effect “in camera” will be very successful. I’m sure it would have to be a camera with three ccd’s to capture the shadows and highlights. There have been a few comments on the picture that said this effect is a fad and will disappear like solarize and posterize. I disagree. HDR ads a component of detail that the two previously mentioned effects do not contribute. I do believe that everyone that posts negatively probably don’t have the skill set necessary to pull it off.
-Chris
Nov 17th, 2008
Emily
Chris: “I do believe that _everyone_ that posts negatively probably don’t have the skill set necessary to pull it off.”
A case of sour grapes? Just because some people wants to jump into the river it doesn’t mean everyone else will follow suit.
Just agree to disagree. I for one have seen very good works of HDR, too bad they are very far and few in between.
Btw, The Spotter (a commentator above) has some pretty good examples of _proper_ HDR.
Nov 17th, 2008
Justine
Love them all! Awesome photos.
Nov 17th, 2008
kırtasiye
good….
Nov 17th, 2008
leorolim
These hdr make my eyes hurt!
Seriously :|
Loved the 1st and the 3rd though.
Nov 17th, 2008
Tom
New rule: in an argument, the first side to use the phrase “epic fail” loses the argument.
Nov 17th, 2008
Beezy
these are incredible!
Nov 18th, 2008
rampantheart
Hi, I came here from SU! Just stopped by to thank you for sharing such wonderful shots! I still can’t the believe the fact that these are real photos! Fabulous pictures!
Nov 19th, 2008
Zakopane kwatery
Wow! Excellent images!
Nov 23rd, 2008
gaston monescu
cool technique.
very cinema-like
Nov 27th, 2008
Alias
It may not be good HDR photography, or “proper” HDR photography, but I, for one, enjoyed these photos MUCH more than those that The Spotter posted above.
And frankly, I don’t care if the overbaked technique is “wrong” and “fake” and “not how it should be done” – I love the look of the overdone images.
Not all of the above examples are amazing, some didn’t strike me at all, but collectively they impress me more than the so-caller “proper” HDR phtography, courtesy of The Spotter.
No offense to the Spotter, by the way. Your shots are great, I just enjoy these much more. :)
Nov 27th, 2008
fletcher
these photos are like totally amazing…
i wish that i knew how to do something like this because its my boyfriends bday tomorrow and he is way into photography and i want to impress him with my mad photo skillz.
Dec 2nd, 2008
gillespey
HDRI has actually been around for quite some time in cinema and CGI. It’s only recently been available in easy to attain and use technology. There are several new books on this technology available on amazon that I highly recommend.
Suffice it to say HDRI is here to stay folks and the early adopters will be the most successful in their art and their businesses.
All the nay sayers out there should have an open mind. As photography continues its transition to a digital medium, additional technology will be required to make up for the limitations of “in camera” digital capture. HDRI is a great tool to make up for these limitations.
And for those pros who decry HDRI as a cheap shortcut to inferior imagery, he/she who has never used any post processing techniques, whether it be in the darkroom or in photoshop to “improve” your images to your liking, can be the first to cast a stone on this technology and its users.
It’s all art and it’s all good…to someone. Why all the negativity? Don’t fear it, embrace it and make good art with it.
Dec 5th, 2008
Oliver
Time will show if it’s only a short trend…I believe once you calm down after your first HDR attempts, you should be able to use it for more realistic looking results.
I’m still trying:
http://flickr.com/photos/fluck
:-)
Dec 8th, 2008
belgianbob
The whole ‘debate’ (Read: Slanging match) over what is and isn’t photography is as old as the hills.
When I was a student of photography, Photoshop – the original Version 1 – was considered by most to be a graphics package at the very least and at worst, cheating. Back then, and it’s only 15 years ago, ‘real’ photographers were people who could correctly expose on transparency film, manipulate lighting and composition and only resorted to computers when things went wrong.
Some of us protested that just ‘clicking a mouse’ would kill photography – and some of you here seem to agree with that – while others saw the possibility for blending the creative possibilities of computing and optics into new styles of imaging and new ways of working.
What am I saying? Well, nothing changes. Actually, that’s not quite true: the fad back then was for processing tranny film through Colour neg chemistry, and I see no-one’s doing that anymore. It’s just the turn of the wheel, and the same arguements apply today as they did in 1992.
FWIW, I like the tone-mapped thing when it’s done well but I can see how, now everyone has learned how to do it and it’s all over the web, it has got very dull.
It works, but use it sparingly, and learn how to tone-map for a naturalistic rendering too… or try shooting on location with lights and Kodachrome. That should be fun!
;-)
Dec 12th, 2008
belgianbob
I should add, before I get accused of being an old school dinosaur, that I really like the ‘Larry the Mechanic’ shot by Chris, the Kiev Opera House shot and Omar Junior’s church. I think the technique works well for those subjects and has produced results that I find pleasing (and it’s all about individual taste really, isn’t it?)
I’d also like to know where the first photograph was shot, as it reminds me of Melk in Austria (although I don’t think it is.)
Dec 12th, 2008
Daniel
hey kids,
these photos are amazing!. Its the art in the modern world. Accept it kids. you are not using your fathers canon AE-1 to take a good photograph. believe me you use a digital one.
Deckheds!
Dec 22nd, 2008
DisturbedByFascists
I’m reading through some of these comments and I’m floored by the absolute fascism spewed by some of these people. I’ve been shooting for nearly 30 yrs(Large & medium format, transparency, film, digital, blah, blah) and I never thought I’d run into people like the ones crapping all over these images.
To say things like: “HDR is MEANT to enhance photography not to distort it beyond recognition” is beyond ignorant.
– Is there an HDR GOVERNING BODY dictating what HDR is MEANT to do?
– Who says that HDR has ANY rules?
– Since when does ART have ANY rules?
Who are these people?! To them “photography” is some sort of shrine. Some relic that needs to be dusted off and waxed and shined every so often, but NEVER, EVER tampered with. Talk about narrow minds. It’s actually scary to know that we have people in the arts community who think like this.
To those that actually appreciate these images…
I REALLY like the motorcycle image and the one from Venice. Those are FANTASTIC!!! They are my favorites from this collection.
HDR is here to stay; get over it. But more importantly, get over yourselves.
Dec 25th, 2008
Yunus Toprak
incredible …fantastic…
Dec 31st, 2008
CARLOS
Very nice technique, good pictures…. I really like them…
Jan 2nd, 2009
Diarmuid
This is the guy you need to study http://andrzejdragan.com/
Jan 8th, 2009
Robert Miller
This is one of my more popular hdr’s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynchburgvirginia/407618927/
Jan 8th, 2009
TedB
Some people spill blue jello on a tile floor and take a picture and call it art. (The Spotter)
Others take a series of photographs and stitch them together adjusting mapping and brightness and contrast till it gives them the effect they are looking for. (See Above) Still others take pictures on films of different speeds and process them with different chemical mixes to get what they see as art. If you don’t like it thats ok. They did it to make themselves happy. If you don’t want to see it then dont look at it. But for goodness sake QUIT BITCHIN it is so freakin old. This is art, thats not art, thats over processed, this would have been good if, She’s lookin at me…. Fits right in doesn’t it…you all sound like 4 year olds.
ITS ART, The idea is to make you feel something, to be passionate, obviously its working because the comments are all filled with emotion. But damn can we express them like adults PLEASE!!!!!
Jan 17th, 2009
gc
whatever you may call these pictures they all took a lot of effort and patience to make … and that is something.
thanks to all the artists :)
Jan 21st, 2009
Guillermo
Hey Andres Pereyda. This is a photography (technical) website enjoyed by many professionals. Not need for you to impose your political views on to everyone. We all have our own unique opinions. Let’s keep that to ourselves on this board and concentrate on just the subjects at hand.
-GZ
Feb 26th, 2009
scott webb
nice selection. most are nice examples. a couple were sorta bland but I still enjoyed them. thanks for posting them up because I like to see what’s out there to see where I can take my HDR work.
Mar 9th, 2009
Denise Cranney
nice pics all around. i’m using new hdr program, hdr photostudio from unified color. they have awesome hdr for realistic images. good for single image edits too!
Mar 15th, 2009
Jack
Nice! Beautiful photos…that bulldozer one is intense… I’ve been working on HDR shots for a while, check this one out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29459966@N04/3324323018/
Or look here http://www.flickr.com/photos/29459966@N04/
If you want to see all of them.
Mar 29th, 2009
Photographer
Very beautiful photos! awesome collection….
dugg!
Apr 28th, 2009
Jumanjan
I love them, and frankly I get tired of people telling me what’s great and what’s not great. If a picture appeals to me, it just does. Simple as that. I like it. period. Quit analyzing everything.
Apr 30th, 2009
Febe Y
i love HDR..
Art is absolute…undeniable..can not be debated in many ways…
Photography is one of the art form..so it’s just the same thing for me..
May 14th, 2009
Okinawa hdr
Wow their work is amazing, I wish each image was accompanied by a tutorial.
May 19th, 2009
Maggie
To Daniel –
I am a photographer who is still using her father’s old Nikon F2 (along with a few other film cameras), and I am taking “good” photographs. You don’t HAVE to use digital to take good photographs, or to make art.
May 21st, 2009
pontiac
High dynamic range imaging was originally developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Wyckoff. Wyckoff’s detailed pictures of nuclear explosions appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the mid 1940s.
May 27th, 2009
jon harrison
good images. im a fan of hdr or tone mapping or any other effect you can use to achieve an original piece of art. doesnt matter if you use a box brownie and a set of hand colouring tints as long as the end result is pleasing to the eye .
Jun 23rd, 2009
Michael Sperling
The Kuala Lumpur photo is the only one I like. The last ones are especially fake looking. It’s like those magazines that way over airbrush a model to the point where they look plastic and fake (Show magazine is one example). I don’t mean to be mean to these photographers. Just one person’s subjective opinion. :-)
Jun 25th, 2009
Adam
Not one of these are “terrible” maybe not quite to your personal likings, but theyre all pretty damn good looking photos. maybe not perfect, but definitely better then what the average person with a camera could do. I personally dont have much experience with a camera, but have seen alot of photos. to me, these all look amazing and whether the effect is done with photoshop or not it still looks awesome.
Jul 25th, 2009
Jeff
Anyone seen any hdr black and white? I believe I have, though they weren’t titled as such.
Jul 30th, 2009
Lena
i think these are wonderful, they are unique and have a special twist in them, id like to know how to take such good photos and edit them to look like these, they are fantastic!
Aug 3rd, 2009
Alan
I agree with all the political correct brigade in here….we need to ban images like this.
They give too much freedom to people with effects software.
Nobody is allowed to looks at such images again.
Aug 12th, 2009
EvilDaystar
Some of the pictures are a little over the top for my taste (ie.: Tokyo Tower, Kiev Opera House) but others are simply gorgeous (ie.: The Beauty of Venice, Triumph Daytona)
Now the ones that are, in my opinion, over the top, are they still art? Yes.
But some of these pictures as so heavily modified that I don’t think they should be considered photographic art anymore, the original picture would but not some of these heavily modified images (again, tokyo Tower for example).
The pictures are so modified that the subject is no longer the focus of the image but the modifications are. The modifications actually DETRACT from the photo.
Anyways, that’s my 2 copper pieces.
Aug 12th, 2009
thesergfactor
Wow these photos are awesome, just found out about HDR photography as well. Looks like alot of fun.
Aug 13th, 2009
Rob
Very nice and I would like to play with it. How are moving objects and portraits done? That isn’t that easy I think?
Aug 18th, 2009
Andy
There are a lot of nice images here. Why are some photographers scared of HDR? Pro Photographers doing commercial work have been shooting multiple exposures and merging them for years, it’s not NEW!. People like Picasso and his paintings don’t look realistic and he uses bright saturated colors. Why can’t a camera be used like a brush? All art is subjective that’s what makes it unique.
Aug 29th, 2009
alex rivero nava
First these guys need to learn fotography. Then they need to stop overprocessing and killing what might have been a great picture. Oh my god, just simply plain awful.
You know, enhancing is about making it closer to what we see and bringin expressiveness into the picture, not killing it! I will soon post a link og my gallery, then you will see what fotography is about
Oct 19th, 2009
lynn c czuchnicki
Great job in producing some outstanding photos. They brought excitement and joy to my day. I wish everyone were as creative as you. Keep up the good work and believe in yourself.
Feb 19th, 2010
vmichael
Mostly over filtered images. Only like a couple of them.
It’s true – the digital age has made everyone a “photographer”. In reality, it’s made everyone a Photoshop hack.
Feb 20th, 2010
Stuart
yeh not good examples, i like the finish personally when it is done gently and with passion, it can enhance a pic or kill it, it is a way to make a mediocre snapper appear better than he really is, ie no real understanding of exposure or shutter speed, just bracket mash and smash out a colourful print…. do it properly peoples and it can appeal to many eyes.
Feb 26th, 2010
Mike
What an awesome technique. I would love to know how its’ done.
Mike
Mar 4th, 2010
arne
like all of these were done in Italy,i was there, it is a must go opportunity…BTW amazing job
Mar 13th, 2010
Bri
I love these,an like the painting look to some of these,great job guys ,sounds like some jealous people on here,ahhh some peoples kids ehhh…
Apr 12th, 2010
Aleksey
Nice picture!!!!!!!
May 18th, 2010
aditya
you know what, some how this kinda HDR thing really makes money and deliver pleasure for common people who didn’t know how the process being done, and it is quite amazing for them to look at these HDR… except photoshop and photomatrix user :D
May 25th, 2010
emmajane
Now those pictures would make some really good stock photos. the old dray and the apartements are amazing.
Aug 27th, 2010
Prison n Juniad
Truly amazing! All pics are indeed very cool , dark and light . Awesome.
Oct 26th, 2010
Oblivion
tokyo tower looks like it has oblivion gate somewhere close….. or have i played too long for elder scrolls: oblivion?
Oct 27th, 2010
j ritchie
So much negative debate from the artsy fartsy mindset ….its pretty its well composed its art ….if you dont like it dont look at it …
Jan 30th, 2011
kathy
beautiful photos.. And a funny debate:) All these hdr haters trying to set the “rules” of “the right” photography.. It is as if you were trying to explain to a cubist painter that the lines in his pictures are twisted:)
Feb 18th, 2011
surovy
where was the first picture taken? in trencin, slovakia?
greeteings from switzerland
andré
Jun 1st, 2011
John
Yes, some of these images are overdone, but some look surreal, and it works for those particular images. HRD is used to make a photo appear more like it looks with our eye, but just becasue that’s true does not mean that it cannot be used to enhance an artistic image. Not all photography has to look like it did with our naked eye. That’s why it’s considered an art. It just depends on the images and the purpose behind it. It’s a subjective field. If you don”t like someones work critique constructively.
Jun 10th, 2011