25 Truly Stunning HDR Pictures

7 Sep 2008

Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly stunning pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion.

“In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques.

Here are 25 stunningly beautiful HDR photographs.

( photo by klados25 )

( photo by Rickydavid )

( photo by raycollister )

( photo by t.beauchemin)

( photo by Compound Eye )

( photo by cloudzilla )

( photo by stevacek )

( photo by blakelipthratt )

( photo by Bartek Kuzia )

( photo by Dubtastic )

( photo by Kris Kros )

( photo by NymphoBrainiac )

( photo by Altus )

( photo by Oblivius Dude )

( photo by svf1972 )

( photo by antiguan_life )

( photo by raymondluijbregts )

( photo by Asoner )

( photo by James Neeley )

( photo by Fort Photo )

( photo by NY_Doll )

( photo by Franck )

( photo by g.s.george )

( photo by Jeff Clow )

6 Responses to 25 Truly Stunning HDR Pictures

Gary

September 7th, 2008 at 16:56

If by “stunning” you mean “stunningly gaudy and overprocessed” then yes.

99.999% of HDR is tacky, tacky tacky.

Henrik

September 7th, 2008 at 21:57

It’s like a few years back when Apple released the ‘Aqua look’ and all new web kids on the block had to have buttons and menu looking like the (then) new UI for Mac.

It would be great to see more natural photos without the silly highlights, tweaks and what not.

avjake

September 19th, 2008 at 08:38

The article mentions “applied carefully”.
It would be nice to see some examples of that.
Back in the day, “HDR” was known as dodging and burning (see Ansel Adams).
I’m not sure what you should call the chroma manipulation seen here.