HDR Photography
How well of you out there know about ‘HDR Photography’..
Well!..HDR actually stands for ‘High Dynamic Range’ which means, HDR enables the photographer to create a color and light palette that goes beyond the normal aperture and shutter speed of the basic shot, and the result..WOWW!. HDR normally involves multiple exposures of a scene at different stops (i.e. +4, +2, 0, -2, -4). These images are then processed and tone mapped for contrast and luminosity settings in sort of a techno-custom-software-darkroom until a light balance is achieved. HDR can also be used with single exposures in RAW format with a similar tone mapping process.
What Im about to share with you guys now is tremandously+amazing, maybe some of you already aware about this superb photographer, but for those who don’t then I represent to you..Trey Ratcliff, the super pro photographer who specialize in a new trend called High Dynamic Range photography. I’ve made a blog to some of his amazing work on HDR photos which are my favourite to share with you guys.. take a deep breath!!
Lapin
In fact, it’s not. Most of the time it’s different level of a same picture blendeed in Photoshop to have more contrast/color and less shadow. Of course they use mask when blending.
Real hdr picture are make from several shoot, and all with different exposition. Then it’s merged in one file .hdr with information of exposure / luminosity / gamma set in the file.
I suggest you to take a look at paul debevec website, one guy who wrote a lot about HDRi.
Eshark
Well..as you read on this blog its written ‘HDR Photography’ but not ‘HDRI’!!
One thing you correct is true the use of high dynamic range imaging in computer graphics was pioneered by Paul Debevec and his thought to be the first person to create computer graphic images using HDRI maps to realistically light and animate computer graphics objects plus he’s also known for his pioneering work image-based modelling and rendering.. www.debevec.org
while ‘HDR Photography’ portfolios for this guy Trey Ratcliff as I mention was really great photography. Here is a quick link for his site/profile/tutorial www.stuckincustoms.com
for more samples, there are thousands of members on this flickr group :
www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/
www.flickr.com/groups/hdrpanoramas/
www.flickr.com/groups/tophdr/
www.flickr.com/groups/myfirsthdr/
Zaid Bethanie
that’s why it will never wor. Zaid Bethanie.
Carsten
I guess I represent the “impressionistic” philosophy of HDR when I say to the more “expressionistic” pictures above that I don’t believe in tonevalue reversal. HDR is also there to avoid light burnouts as in “40-Obsidian Bahistrades” for instance. Meaning that had the HDR technique been applied properly in the selection above, these pictures would be a LOT better! Sorry! I don’t mean to be harsch, just honest.