HDR Photography

Natural Beauty in HDR

This is only my second attempt at HDR photography. I practice on flowers, and in the HDR world, flowers are pretty boring subjects. Hopefully soon I can start practicing on something a little more dramatic such as exteriors of buildings. According to Wikepedia, HDR Photography is defined as:

 In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.[1]


The two main sources of HDR imagery are computer renderings and merging of multiple photographs, the latter of which in turn are individually referred to as low dynamic range (LDR)[2] or standard dynamic range (SDR)[3] photographs.

Tone mapping techniques, which reduce overall contrast to facilitate display of HDR images on devices with lower dynamic range, can be applied to produce images with preserved or exaggerated local contrast for artistic effect.

Linked Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
More information on how to achieve HDR photography can be found here: http://photocritic.org/hdr-photography-how-to/  (this is a great resource!!)

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