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50 Incredible Examples of HDR Photography
HDR Photography, you either love it or hate it. I have read comments reflecting both sentiments and honestly I can understand both sides. A lot of HDR photography I have found really seems blown-out and way way to saturated and for the most part just plain ugly. This flavor of HDR photos I can do without. Then there is the well executed HDR image. Here we find beautiful dreamlike colors and tones, almost a magical quality to it.
Below I have examples of just that type of HDR photo. Enjoy.
Whats your opinion on HDR Photography?
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23 Comments
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Kim Beaty
September 23rdI love HDR – Beautiful images, enhanced, what’s wrong with that? I love the lights and darks, and the deep texture of the images.
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Bill Jones
September 23rdAgreed, however I have seen some pretty bad attempts at it.
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Bill Jones
September 23rd@todayinart
Keep trying. In the future I will have a tutorial explaining how to produce nice HDR images. There is hope! -
@carmarthenshire
September 24thAlways inspired, always learning more.
Some of my attempts:- http://www.fingerprintphotography.co.uk/wales/wales.htm
:o)
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Kelly
September 24thAmazing pictures! Everything looks like so real and you feel like you can touch! *-*
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Roger
September 24thYea, It’s all about being subtle with it. Here’s a HDR tilt shift photo I did. Two gimmicks in one!
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Dean Birinyi
September 25thWonderful images.
Everyone of them is stunning and beautiful, however I also noticed that all but a very few have that HDR look, where things are just a little bit unreal, but maybe it’s just me and my inner aesthetic hasn’t quite adapted to the new capabilities the technique provides.
Regardless these images are all excellent.
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Bill Jones
September 28th@ Aaron
Visit this flickr group. You will find your answers there. Basically you will have to work from one RAW image and create several bracketed exposures from it to produce your HDR image. -
Rich Uchytil
October 6thGreat photos, but you can’t do proper a HDR set without including Trey Ratcliff from http://www.StuckinCustoms.com. His stuff is fantastic!!
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FOlmeda
October 15thThese are really brilliant!!!!!! An inspiration! I’ve been taking some too as this in Inverness http://www.flickr.com/photos/kobayeshi/3855999361/ or this in Portmahomack http://www.flickr.com/photos/kobayeshi/3893137431/
Bye!
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Lonnie
November 16thI really don’t like HDR. Too many people just over do it. Looks fake to me most of the time. If you are going to try it, don’t go over +/- 0.3 stop either way.
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Tazran Tanmizi
December 6thto me some it looks like bad illustration. just looks too artificial, colors saturation are too high. I think some are just over done.
I think is good technique just got to do tastefully. judgment is as important as technique.
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Morkel Erasmus
December 9thstunning examples!! ’tis true, most either love or hate it. I am of the funny kind that loves the natural-looking ones as well as those that push the boundaries some.
I agree – you’ll have to include Trey Ratcliffe from Stuckincustoms.
have a look at my “Southern Africa in HDR” blog…
just click on my name…:) -
The Baldchemist
December 29thYou know, I like some of the pictures here and thank you. But, I’m not sure that they are “high dynamic range”. HDR requires several exposures. Some of these have movement that would not make for HDR.
It’s great that techniques are now availible to all (at a cost) but attempt to capture tha picture i the camera without relying on what “photoshop” can do.
Some pretty ordinary compositions here that have been worked for an unreal result.
Composition and use of light wins everytime.
Have a great new year. -
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Craig
February 25thI don’t find many of these “incredible” at all. In fact many would be poor examples, HDR is about subtlety and in fact many are not HDR put ’shopped HDR with single shots. “repainted” pictures if you will with an amazing amount of over sharpness.
I am a fan of HDR but much of what you have posted here is NOT HDR, at least let us start with getting it right and not calling super saturation, clarity blown out pictures HDR. -
Michael Harris
February 25thFor me hdr is a tool – a means to an end. It is a tool available to use in creating an image, it’s not the point of the image.
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Jessica
March 9thI think you missed someone in this list of great HDR photos:
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