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A Taste of HDR Photography: Inspiring Photos to Liven Your Day

Inspiration   April 11, 2011  by Ronald Bien

Photographs do not capture the magnificent view of real life. Until the birth of HDR photography.

HDR or High Dynamic Range Photography makes it possible to capture the ranges of luminance from different intensity levels. What ordinary cameras are unable to do is show the contrasts and specific aspects of a photograph from both highlights and shadows. HDR allows a photographer to achieve just that. Actually, it is a post-processing activity where you ‘combine’ and adjust a series of images into one, allowing you to get the details that a single shot could not provide. In the process, you need to take shots with different apperture and shutter speed. For more information, you can check Trey Ratcliff’s awesome blog here.

We have collected images from some very talented photographers and you can check their works by clicking through their respective links. Enjoy the list!

The Sea

The sea HDR
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Photography

Photography-HDR
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Curacao Island

captainkimo
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HDR Photography

art HDR Photography
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Final HDR Friday

captainkimo photo
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Cityscape of Bangkok

captain
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Fishing at Carlin Park

kimo
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On Track5

on track5 HDR
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The Parking Lot

HDR Parking Lot
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Urban

Urban HDR
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CityScape

CityScape HDR
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New York

New York hdr
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Doel, Belgium

d3dicationphotography
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Track

HDR Track
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Sunset Over The Burj Al Arab

blamethemonkey
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Turner Bend

crop boarder & watermark
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Cleveleys Sea Front

sea front HDR
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Electric Sky

hdr Photography Electric
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Memories of Paris

Memories of Paris
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Alki Beach

Alki Beach in HDR
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Lighting Sky

Photography Lighting Sky
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Cloudy New Zealand

New Zealand HDR
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Sunset by the River

(momoc hdr
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Hostel, Tree, Sky and Pond

momoc photos
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From a Book: The Complete Guide to HDR Photography

guide hdr photography
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Digital Divinations

Digital Divinations
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Digital Divinations

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Digital Divinations

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Digital Divinations

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Digital Divinations

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Digital Divinations

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Digital Divinations

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Burning Man

Burning Man
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Burning Man

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 Ronald Bien

Ronald is the founder of NaldzGraphics.net. He’s a graphic designer and loves everything related to design. His site started as a portfolio, and has turned into an amazing design blog to share his experiences with and help provide useful resources.

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  • http://www.correresmidestino.com Zhu

    I have a very instinctive reaction when it comes to HDR. I absolotely love the subtle effets and I hate when the colours are saturated. It just looks fake.

    I haven’t tried it yet as a photographer… I should.

  • http://daniellerainephotography.com/ Houston Family Photographer

    This is the first time hearing about HDR. Amazing photographs. Will this work with portraits?

  • http://www.javga.nl javga

    Terrible… HDR is not for me, way to harsh and fake indeed. A one pony trick if you ask me, nothing more, nothing less… The “From a Book: The Complete Guide to HDR Photography” series are pretty nice btw.

  • http://photoshop-clippingpath.blogspot.com/ clipping path

    your design blog site is really excellent!

  • Jay

    I’m afraid that I find nearly all of these have been overdone making them unrealistic. Good HDER is much more subtle.

  • 135

    If I never, ever see another crappy, overdone HDR piece of crap, it will be too soon

  • http://ilovetoronto.com/ Heather

    I am afraid that HDR photos are not my cup of tea and these pictures proved me right. However, I like one of them, called the “Track”. It looks as if it was painted. Some of the others look like painted pictures too but colouring is too aggressive on them.

  • http://www.islandmomma.wordpress.com Linda

    I agree with the majority so far. I don’t like the ones which look fake. My idea of photography is, indeed, to convey the beauty or the message my eye sees, so I don’t like the ones which look fake, although I understand that they might be useful for ad ad campaign or something like that. However, there are some which do convey better than “normal” photography the picture in the photographer’s eye. The camera alone can’t always do this. You get the background too light if you light the foreground correctly etc, which is not what our eyes see usually. I think it’s fine to pass on that image, and the ones which look natural I love. These days, with HD photography we are getting photos which look too good to be true in any event. I recently asked, online, a photographer if she’d used HDR in a particular photo and it turned out not, it was just a very sensitive camera used.

  • http://eimeardesign.com kendra

    These are some amazing photos! The work is so unreal! It feels like I’m looking into some fantasy alternate universe of real life. Great share! I will definitely be looking more into the HDR photography.

  • http://www.chiphotographyofcharleston.com Charleston Wedding Photographer

    These are absolutely amazing. I thought when I got my Canon 5D way back that it took amazing photographs. These definitely top those for sure. Something to keep in mind as methods change in the future.

  • kev

    I find HDR so distastfull and cheap.
    I am really wondering why people love this.

  • http://www.robertodifresco.it Roberto

    Although it may make the picture too fake … HDR is a wonderful technique, making the picture very emotional.

  • AngHellic

    Art is open to conception, Morons… The majority of you that don’t like this type of photography should just leave it at that rather than going on these deep paragraph length explanations. Those of you are only feeling this way cause you can not do it yourself, or have tried & failed horribly. It is an amazing POST technique of PHOTOGRAPHY IMHO…

  • http://read2learn.net Kent

    Thats amazing! I wonder if I can hire these guys to do some work for me. Im blown away. I think this is my new favorite blog

  • http://www.rongdhonugraphics.com Rongdhonu Graphics

    amazing…………..

  • http://www.boomboxcreative.in Boombox Creative

    I find it interesting that HDR photography comes really close to what the eye actually sees.. Our eyes can perceive both the detail of the clouds as well as the mountains below, which, due to the mechanics of a camera, is difficult to obtain in a single click.

    Love the whole collection here, some images are exceptionally beautiful!

  • http://www.lumiere-condos.com Lumiere

    Funny how the first line of the post is, “Photographs do not capture the magnificent view of real life”. Funny, to me at least, because it seems like none of these photos look like real life! Too dreamy and altered to be true representations of real life.

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