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Dangerous roads

The author for the car one with the boats in the background can be found here
http://kippen.deviantart.com/art/Mazda-HDR-51345979

pictures are cool.. seen better on flickr..

These pictures are cool and here are 100 more HDR pictures

Really awesome photo's!

I took a set of HDR photos in Paris last summer I went. It was my first proper experiment with HDR and I think it turned out pretty great! I like more toned down, natural (yet no less extravagant) lit HDR more than the fantasy oriented, video game look

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kreamy/sets/72157601949772144/

wow... some people just love to trash-talk other people's work without knowing squat. pick up a book or take some classes before pretending to be an art critic... let's see some links to your own work!

A nice selection of images there. I have from time to time experimented with HDR but never been fully satisfied with the results. After seeing these images I think I'll go back and try again.

Dude not bad! Try to visit the website of dave hill. I think you got your concept from his effect. Some of your pictures isnt good...Sorry Bro...just a comment. But some of the photos are good specially the first and the second.

Wow, these are some of the best examples I've ever seen, nice stuff!

AS others have said a lot of these aren't HDR. For pictures with motion in them it is difficult at best to get a great shot. As an example see the second picture and you will see the same car in two spots. You will also notice that you can see the curb through the car which is one of the things that happens with HDR due to the nature of multiple exposures. Most of the interior pictures look lame to me as well.

The pictures of the cars I'd suspect were people taking RAW images and then setting the exposure after the fact to make a few separate images in HDR style

Only the first photo is great!

very impressive stuf! HDR pics looks sometime unnatural but smart creator doesn't overdo image leaving picture details fresh and untouched. Nice list.

It's very beautiful~~~

Sorry Seo, I messed up that last link (got the html wrong lol) Try this. Ah there we go, it works now :-)

Hey Seo, try this guide . It gives detailed explanations on how to do HDR photos :-)

Does anyone have a good duide on making HDR pictures?

Wow! Some seriously cool HDR images. Now I feel inspired to shoot some myself.

"I hate idiots like you who think exposure is all about how strong a flash the photographer used."

I hope that wasn't directed at me. If that was, then I dont want to brag, but I am into photography, so I do know a lot about it. I dont think exposure is all about how strong a flash a photographer uses. Exposure is a whole number of things: aperture size, shutter speed, ISO, EV etc etc. And also, these HDR photographs were not created using the shadow/higlights function. They were most likely created using HDR software like Photomatix Pro. Yes, they maybe did the final processing using photoshop, after creating the HDR. So, to all those people who say these photos are crap, fake, whatever, Id like to see your photos. If you dont like these photos, then thats fine, but dont go insulting the photographers by saying theyre fake if you dont know how they created these HDR pictures. I dont know either, maybe they used Photomatix Pro, maybe they blended multiple exposures using layers in Photoshop, which can also be done, and yes, a couple of them seem to have used a single RAW exposure. But i know for sure that they dint only use the Shadow/Highlights adjustement.

Rant over

Oh, listen to all the experts...

Two rules of photography, in case ya'll forgot:

1) Shoot what you want.
2) Fuck what anyone else thinks.

Simple, eh? Now...quit whining and go out and shoot.

I am hoping the author reads this...

This is a great selection of HDR images, however, dues must be paid to the artists/photographers who created them. Simply stating "Found on Deviantart" and providing a generic link to that site is not sufficient - each image should be linked back to the relevant page on Deviantart, and should only be used here with the artist's permission (or in accordance with the licencing terms provided for that specific work).

Please - be a good netizen and ensure that credit is paid where credit is due. Otherwise, artists may be less likely to share this work in the future, making it all the more difficult for bloggers like yourself to find any material to pass onto your readers.

"THIS IS NOT HDR PEOPLE!
This is highlight/shadow crap named so for the Photoshop filter used.

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This may well be an acceptable art form unto itself, but it is certainly not HDR. This has NOTHING to do with HDR. These are stylized photos. Period."

You can simulate camera's digital sensor exposure in photoshop using the levels.. So yes, it IS possible to create an HDR image from a single shot, even if it's done in JPG (But easier and better looking, if shot in raw). If you want to know how, just YouTube it for a few tutorials.

I hate idiots like you who think exposure is all about how strong a flash the photographer used.

Cool collection and here's another

Hi. Im into photography and I want to share my opinion on HDR. HDR isnt just 'cartoony' pictures. HDR is a useful processing technique that is used when a shot is taken in less than ideal light. I have used this technique more than once and i am thankful for it. Sure enough, a lot of photographers get very creative with their HDR shots, hence the 'cartoony' look sometimes. Some people like them, some don't. For all those HDR 'haters' herem if HDR isn't your cup of tea, then fair enough. HDR photos can also be realistic looking photos.

As for all those who say that the HDR picture of the rally car would be impossible, I understand why you think that. However, HDR is not just multiple exposures, an HDR shot can be processed using a single RAW photo (for those who dont know, a RAW photo is a completely unprocessed photo. Most compact cameras do a certain amount of processing before the image is even taken, but nearly all DSLR cameras have a RAW function, as do some high end compacts, which then gives a photographer a lot more control over the photo in the processing stage). For an HDR shot, you need to do a lot of tonemapping, to bring out the details (mostly done on special HDR software) which can be done both on multiple exposures and single RAW exposures.

God I sound like a geek... lol

Anyway, sorry for rambling, just wanted to share my opinion and some knowledge to those who might not know much about HDR.

Btw, these photos are great :-)

In traditional, you'd use a technique called exposure blending to achieve the same sunset picture (not easy to balance properly and cannot work with complex shapes (well not easily).

"HDR simulates the human eye's range of light, which s far more than film or digital can represent in one single photograph."

That's true, HDR is combining multiple exposures when you can't perfectly expose an images (say shooting into light).

Say you're doing a hdr shoot of a sunset, you need one for the foreground (dark in comparison to the sky) one for the background (bright) and one for balancing the tones.

Here are some of my HDR pics, feel free to use them:

http://forums.ocia.net/showthread.php?t=3665

There's what maybe 4 actual HDR pics there?

The rest are horribly posteurized from the filters being, well, dumb and not calculating the relevant light sources properly....it's sad to see some of these being passed off as HDR pictures.

Funny that we read several definitions on what HDR is - none were fully correct. One expert see's "Highlight/Shadow" applied - you can't get the shown effect with it - but maybe he meant tone mapping. Another said bracketing would be imperative for HDR (it's only one way to achieve HDR, no condition), and so on. Read up on a subject, before you try to appear as being expert.
Aside from 1,2, 6 and 11 the pictures might have been created using HDR procedures - but have gone horribly wrong. So why don't you show some good ones and if you do - credit the creator, not doing it sucks seriously.

These photos are terrible! Not worth making it onto Digg. Way too many people are into this HDR trend, and don't even know how to take a good unprocessed photo first.

WHAT IS THE POINT OF MAKING A LIST OF GREAT PHOTOS WITHOUT LINKS TO ORIGINAL FILE/SIZE. PLEASE POST ORIGINAL LINK SO I CAN DOWNLOAD THE HI RES VERSION AS WALLPAPER.

Wow. When I make HDR pictures all I get are blurry pictures. I guess that's where those Digital SLR comes in handy.

Some attribution or links to the originals would be nice.

THIS IS NOT HDR PEOPLE!
This is highlight/shadow crap named so for the Photoshop filter used.

HDR simulates the human eye's range of light, which s far more than film or digital can represent in one single photograph.

True HDR uses multiple exposures, which makes stuff like the image of th Rally car above impossible to do from a single exposure.

AGAIN, this i NOT HDR!

Someone here actually said "I hate HDR", and that reaction is ONLY because of images like these being mis-labeled as HDR.

This may well be an acceptable art form unto itself, but it is certainly not HDR. This has NOTHING to do with HDR. These are stylized photos. Period.

This is fake crap. These aren't HDR pictures, this is photoshopped garbage. I can't believe this was on the front page of digg.

Lol @ haters

Those pictures are 10x more beautiful than anything you ever shot.

Sorry, but these are junk. The pictures of the cars are NOT HDR--in order to do a real HDR you expose the picture several times. You can't do that with dynamic pictures like that. All they did was through filters at the pictures. Garbage.

my god! my eyes are bleeding!

seriously, almost all of these pictures look like they were done by someone who was experimenting with HDR for the first time and just set all of the settings to their max. there's SOOO many better examples of HDR out there than these.

I agree that learning the concepts behind is helpful, and might help you understand the processing better and get better pictures out of it.

why *SHOULD* HDR, or any technique for that matter, represent the reality better? Much of photography has to do with representation, visualization and art. HDR offers a chance to express something more realistic, but it also offers alot more artistic potential...

Im not one to encourage art over beautiful realistic captures, but I don't understand why people dump over HDR post-processing just because its not realistic.

That's not exactly true: several algorithms now can detect which parts of the image are moving, and if you wish for them to be static, it can try to extract the dynamic range from the bracketed pics while applying it to one instance. So if a person moves slightly, it can *try* to keep the person as he was in, say, first image, the while applying the full range in the HDR processing....

Obviously, they only work in some cases, but its not impossible to cover a real dynamic range over a slightly moving subject...

Some of those COULD be actally good photographs. But you don't need to be a genius to tell that this poorly toned mapped stuff is defineatly not amazing or something like that. HDR should be a realistic representation of the scene shot not the least realistic one.

great photos.

ugh... i hate hdr sooo much.

Not all of those pictures are HDR. HDR requires bracketing, even if it's automatic in the camera; and that takes at least a few milliseconds, which means that any photograph that freezes action, like the car with the swirl of dust, is by definition not bracketed, and therefore not HDR, but just photoshop alone.

Wow, the first two actually look good. Lovin those colors and more muted tones.

The rest are just ugly gaudy overdone gimmick effects like most HDR. Take it down two notches and some of them might have been good.

All of you who are planning on getting an SLR just to take part in this "HDR scene" - please, learn real photography first, then get some graduated ND filters and learn about what HDR really means and how to manipulate light, then play with your little toy Photoshop but for the love of God have some MODERATION. I'm just sayin, learn how to do it right first, then you can try out this HDR stuff, it will help make your HDR better. Good luck.

A lot of those are truly horrific. Good HDR images allow the viewer to see more detail than they would otherwise be able to, but don't make the image look too unrealistic ... which the ones of the Subaru fail at miserably, as does the image of the inside of the house.

Sweet post, i am liking all of these. You already have Trey Ratcliff, You should check out some of the other HDR artists on Imagekind

Peter Van Nugent
Notley Hawkins

Nate

Amazing once again !

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Do you know any HDR wallpaper websites besides this one ?

Wow now that is some serious photography. Amazing!

JT
www.FireMe.To/udi

how do you make stuff like that?

WOW...

Cool!

Wow, The ones with the cars are amazing !
Thumbs up !

Fantastic!

Amazing images.