25 Truly Stunning HDR Pictures
Posted on Sep 06, 2008 | Comments 175
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 )
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( photo by Bartek Kuzia )
( photo by Dubtastic )
( photo by Kris Kros )
( photo by Stuck in Customs )
( 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 )
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I love these pictures.
I wonder how much the godly camera costed!
Awesome job.
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Hey, these are good. I have a similar collections for planes on http://vishnufafat.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/amazing-cockpit-views/
Well, Everyone……
Perhaps YOU do not understand art !?!
One of the main purposes of Art is to provoke reaction, Yes ?..(Feel free to disagree, expletives not necessary)
Well, if so with her remarks above Linda W. has hence seriously succeeded in becoming an Artist; Perhaps this is just what she intended…
and YOU all became her unwitting critics ??
Native-American, African, you-name-it ART has been assimilated by Westerners (Westernized) as art since they developed their own notions on what art can be. If you were in an art history class and someone said Duchamp’s ready-mades weren’t art would you call them a twat in class? I’m sure you have your own opinions on what is and isn’t art so why not actually discuss it. Art is open for interpretation by whatever anyone thinks – some may find these photographs to be art while some may think they are destined for a calendar of obvious cliches. Damn it, isn’t everything art? If everyone in the world were to disappear, would art still be art? I know photography or HDR wouldn’t matter much to the cockroaches, they’d be eating all of the circus peanuts. Let’s see a stunna HDR picture of THAT.
Seems like most of these with live subjects would have to do the “cheap” way of HDR. Take one picture, then change the exposure on it at least three different levels, then use an HDR app like Photomatix to combine them. Generally I take three different shots on a tripod, with different exposure settings. But if the subject is moving, things will blur.
There ARE a lot of halos around objects in these shots.
Holy birds?
…just sayin’.
@56
How can you understand something that everyone has a different opinion about? Everyone understands their own perception of art, but never the perception of others. This is what we call subjectivity, and thats why people will always argue about it.
Us being critics of a critic must then mean we are all artists. Funny that.
I started posting my creations on Webshots a few years ago.It was something I’ve wanted to do since I was a child.To me its an expression of something you feel from day to day and can take you out of yourself.My friends and family do not understand how I am able to create from filters,but I don’t expect to win any prizes..altho they have asked me to print them out as greeting cards.But hey,let them go on webshots and print them out themselves.It would certainly save my ink!hahahaha!! I adore these photos and I’m very thankful to have eyesight to view them for I know those who do not.I simply love the cows to pieces!
i love art
i love tech
i love art using the latest tech!
One pic can truly be consider as HDR’s (the canoes one). The rest are overdone.
I have a HDR wallpapers collection here:
http://www.Wallpapers-room.com
lol i agree with Linda about these hdr looking to over done but thats it. the rest of you have minds the size of a peanut if you’re going to let this woman anger you over tome p(r)etty HDR photos that anyone with photoshop or photomatix can create or recreate if they had the time. Relax and go create your own HDR and then you can consider it your own personal art.
The bike on the pier is by far the pick of all these shots.
HDR, the crack-cocaine of photography. While I enjoy taking these kinds of shots and experimenting with photoshop filters, true photography is beyond simply setting up a tripod somewhere and playing with various exposures.
Also, many of these photos appear to be post-processed HDR from a single shot as opposed to actually taking a series of multiple shots with various exposures.
HDR is a fad and it will seem quite dated in a few years. It is a fun technical experiment though but simply being able to take HDR shots and process them doesn’t make you a photographic genius.
These images are nice, but doesn’t a real HDR photo need to be taken at multiple exposures? The ones with animals in them are just jerked around in photoshop. Any monkey can do that.
Call it art or not, but if it’s taken from one exposure, don’t call it HDR. Call them synthetic HDR photos. That would be more accurate.
There’s way too many overly sensitive commenters here.
Linda, you’re completely right. Exactly my first thoughts too…
What the…, the correct chronological order of the comments here is gone!
Linda, you seem to have touched a nerve there. Whatever happened to “everybody has a right to an opinion?”
Ehm guys … the colors are all wrong. Yh, really.
This page was pretty clearly labeled as containing HDR Photographs, so why did so many people who hate HDR even look at it much less comment how much they hate HDR? If you don’t like HDR then take yourself off to the Louvre website or whatever floats your boat and try not to fall off your high horse on the way.
very nice pics. hdr photos always look amazing.
well crafted cliché but not art.
juvenile insults but not discourse.
The HDR photographs look really good.. Dont take those seriously who say these are bad. I found the photos very good!! Anyways your page is a top suggestion by Digg.. good work.
Linda, I’m with you. Great technical capabilities, no so much on the composition for the most part.
HDR doesn’t need to look like an overworked acrylic. – it’s just easier to make it look like a heavily saturated painting. Unfortunately, that point seems to have been lost by most of the people playing around with HDR.
I really liked all of these. These shows us things we see every day in a new way. It doesn’t matter to me if these are ‘art’ or not. I still enjoyed them.
Stunning, yes. Beautiful, no.
I agree with Linda. The essence of art is the undisturbed beauty of the human aspect. Digital artists often rely to heavily on their technology to the point that they have become lazy. These photos are rather bland, anyone can turn up the saturation levels in Adobe Photoshop. I want the artist who illicits my raw emotions that I never new I had. These people are just hacks.
wow. let’s get linda.
who’s a bunch of big boys then.
@David @z @arnie @uh-huh @jeremiah
gutless
Really cool photos. Thanks for sharing these. Please ignore the haters. I loved the bicycle and the one with the reactors. Well done.
*S*
The bicycle is not HDR. It’s just a gradated tobacco filter:
http://www.adorama.com/ckp125.html
Easily done in-camera without anything digital.
Nice CHEMTRAILS morons. Wake up and save your lives.
True, the one with canoes looks the best. They have a look of digital animation. Almost game quality.
A waste of time, this got nothing to do with real photography. Anyone with lots of time to waste can manipulate images to look like this with PS.
This is not real photos.
To be honest, this is NOT HDR it is a Photoshop filter from Topaz-labs that works with exposure…
I will say the pictures are indeed pleasing to the eyes, but they are not real photography.
They are so heavily edited that they are not photos anymore.
The idea that digital art is not the same as are is utter bull, if trent reznor can (to some people) define his generation with digital music how can you say he is not an artist? Video games though commericial are completely digital and can tell a story in a way better then any movie how is that not art. simply put art is not confined by anything, art can be found in almost anything, if you express yourself, the way you do so is your art and no one has a right to tell you just because it did not bring out any feelings in them its not art because they are wrong art is truely art if it brings out feelings in yourself, im a musician and a bit of a photoshop artist, now i dont put much work in my photoshop works i just do them for fun and i find them artistic and im proud of them they are full of filters and people on here would probably slam them but at the end of the day i look at them and think they are great, they are artwork and they are how i express myself, from a music stand point its the same way people may not like the music i play but it dosent remove it as an artform because no one but me relates to it, end of the story is, i dont like you linda wright, you have no idea what art is and why artists do what they do
i agree with Linda
I agree with DogBreath on the use of HDR but in making the list I might have also added the shot of the eagle.
HDR is a difficult process to accomplish, I’m actually pretty bad at it.
My cohort in photography, however, is not.
His flickr stream is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theodorebaschak/
The thing to keep in mind about HDR is often the images do not look the same in small size as they do resolved up at full size. The micro-contrasts at small size seem un-natural, because it is an effect we are used to seeing on a larger world (our brain micro-contrasts all the time).
“The only thing I felt was disappointment, that I was being asked to wade through a collection of overt cliches or snapshots.”
Spoken by someone who has the inability to see beauty in the ordinary, or in an image that says nothing.
I think I’m in love with Linda right now.
I agree with Linda, I think most people on here don’t look any deeper than “ooo pretty colors” when looking at these shots.
Technically these shots aren’t worth much merit. Only a few show much thought other than, Hey lets take a picture and mess with it in Photomatix!
Like the Dog and the Eagle shot are the worst for this, take away all that post processing and what do you have… a mediocre picture with a centered subject, taken with an extreme lens (wide or telephoto) So the photographer can be lazy and not worry about composition.
Art or not….SOMEONE’S got MADDD Photoshop skills…
I’m sorry, but all of you are arguing over the ‘value’ or individual statement of perception.
Art is simply a mirror into one’s own self. so if Linda thinks it’s not art… then it’s not. but if the rest of us (capable thinking intelligent and unintelligent souls) think it is, who is to argue the validity…? I think Linda should learn to use her words… after her opinion matters to someone, somewhere… I’m sure. I think… maybe…
the hdr picture are significant because of the diferent exposures, thats what makes them interesting to the eye. it dosnt have to be the most amazing thing to capture it’s more about looking for new subjects and capturing the levels of color contrast, highlights mids, and lows. these are amazing pictures.
What a load of rubbish, my kids can do better than that and they are 4 and 6.
Art, fine every one has their choice of art but looking at this is not worth my time and all you commenting on here need to get a life and see what is really out in the world. Get off your computers and see with your own eyes the true beauty of what this planet has to offer with out the filters and masks.
Linda, it is time you got over your fear of PhotoShop. Do you have a deep underlying fear of image software? Also thanks to everybody who commented on this page, I clicked on the link to view the images, which nobody claimed was ART and had a good laugh reading the comments.
Oh and one more for linda – please don’t be a bitter person or consider jumping off a bridge. You will find that people are usually nicer if you accept them for what they are instead of critizing and patronising them .
HDR is a post process style not possible without the aid of a computer and software. So it’s less photography (capturing light) than it is digital imaging (pixel manipulation). There’s nothing wrong with that. Some people like it, some don’t. Personally, I find most HDR overdone, creating images that are unpleasing to look at beyond the initial “wow” factor. I’d prefer a little more subtlety (craft) among the practitioners without compromising the uniqueness of the style.
99.99% of photography isn’t art. Why? Because about 10 billion photos are snapped every day. Personal expression, wholly of itself, isn’t art either. Otherwise I’m making art right now as I type.
Art implies craft. Ansel Adams is famously quoted “You can have craft without art but you cannot have art without craft.” And more specifically to photography, Edward Weston notes “Composition is the strongest way of seeing.” I’d argue, that for any photographic image, composition is more foundational to achieving art than any method of post processing.
It’s funny to note how many photographer’s often feel the need to refer to themselves as “Fine Art Photographers”. This doesn’t occur anywhere else in the art world. No one says “I’m a fine art sculptor” or “I’m a fine art ballet dancer”. I did this myself at one time.
Those of you Linda bashing should really be ashamed of yourselves, largely hiding behind the anonymity of the web. There’s enough ill will in the world without all these baseless “f**k off” comments.
Like so many things, these would be SO nice if the HDR tweaks wern’t SO overdone and obvious. Granted a couple of them are quite nice, but most of them look more like paintings than photographs. All things in moderation folks!
Linda Wright could not be more correct. Great piece, Linda.