High Dynamic Range Photography. Cybergrain.com has now been retired. This article has been preserved because of it's popularity. Thanks for visiting Jon Meyer, www.jonmeyer.com Jon Meyer, Feb 2004 Updates July 16 2006: Minor revisions.May 2 2005: Adobe Photoshop CS 2 now supports HDR imaging. linkApril 7 2005: Fixes in response to this thread. Caveat: I am a photographer, approaching HDR imaging from the perspective of its expressive potential. Introduction For general photography, the results you get with today's digital cameras are about as good and sometimes better than as the results you get with film cameras.
One area of rapid development is in dynamic range. In this article, I'll look at recent advances in the field of high dynamic range imaging. The Problem Here's the problem in a nutshell: Real-world scenes contain light ranges that exceed a 50,000:1 dynamic range. If you are not careful, you end up with results like this: You can see the chair but nothing out of the window. Old Solutions Here is an example from Monet. How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic Range Photographs. The Future of Digital Imaging - High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR) Incredible New Portfolio of Dave Hill. When I opened few weeks back a National Geographic, I found an amazing shot of this animal. Because of its appearance and what I read about it next, I decided to make my own “water bear”Water Bear - aka “Tardigrade” - is an amazing micro-animal. One of the real superhero on earth.According to Wikipedia, “Tardigrades can withstand temperatures from just above absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space.
They can go without food or water for more than 10 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce”.Softs : Cinema 4D, Vray, Zbrush, Photoshop. 50 Street Shots in HDR. 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures. You know, we use ad-blockers as well. We gotta keep those servers running though. Did you know that we publish useful books and run friendly conferences — crafted for pros like yourself?
E.g. our upcoming SmashingConf Barcelona, dedicated to smart front-end techniques and design patterns. Advertisement Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. But few are willing to make the changes required to deliver on that promise. Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link This post covers 35 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures. Please notice: Fantastic HDR Pictures Link Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. Sources and Further Resources Link. 10 Easy Steps To Advanced Photography Skills | How-To. Advertisement By Trey Ratcliff (aka Stuck in Customs), one of the most famous and renowned HDR photographers on Flickr.
In his article Trey describes some professional insights and useful photography tips that he collected over the years of his career. A camera does not work like an eye; film does not work like memory. There is a fine line between a photo that is quite nice and one that is quite breathtaking. At some unknown point, a photo can cross the Rubicon and be forever a piece of beautiful art. And yes, it gets a bit touchy-feely here trying to determine if your work has crossed that line. The back of the Taj Mahal during a summer sunset.
The good news is that divining your way to more beautiful photos does not require rune rites of scapulimancy. 1. I’ve always thought about photography differently. When you see out of one eye your whole life and then start using a camera in your mid-30s, something happens to you! Now, let’s fast forward to today. 2. 3. No, it’s not. 4. 5. 6. 7. How to Create Professional HDR Images. Sweet sassy-mollassy, I've been Dugg! Hi, Adobe! Note: clicking any image below makes it larger in a new window. If you visit here regularly, you've probably noticed that I post a lot of High Dynamic Range, or HDR, stuff these days. Even if you don't, you've likely seen HDR photos all around the net as photographers both pro and hobbyist experiment with this emerging artistic format.
Personally, I was pointed to it earlier this year by a fellow photographer & friend, Darren, and I've been having a ton of fun with it since. However, I've noticed as I look around that most of the other photographers out there who work with HDR are creating images that, while often extremely interesting, look absoloutely nothing at all like the scene they were shooting -- and even if they do get it close, they end up with photos that have an enormous amount of HDR processing artifacts, such as halos. What you need: 1. 2. 3. 4.
First off, you need to take the photographs. Okay, you've got it open. Click OK. Hdr101.com.