Six Revisions

Bariski

August 1st, 2009

These are indeed stunning, superb collection. Shared!

Zach Krasner

August 1st, 2009

Awesome awesome awesome article! My favorite is the city on fire and the new york skyline… very cool!

Maxime Perron Caissy

August 1st, 2009

Nice collection, but some pictures are way too artificial… I prefer a subtle HDR than a drastic fake looking picture.

Pranav Shirodkar

August 1st, 2009

Excellent roundup!! Absolutely Mind boggling effects!!

Christina

August 1st, 2009

Awesome collection! Thanks!

Kevin Quillen

August 1st, 2009

These are great, I love HDR photography. I think when its done well it’s amazing. I like this as much as I like tilt-shift photos.

Akhtar

August 1st, 2009

I love HDR photography, Thanks!

Kaplang

August 1st, 2009

WOW these look amazing, totally blown away :)

RoryMad Studios

August 1st, 2009

I have a 23 (yes, 23) Exposure HDR image of the Tampa Skyline, you can find it here.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3568/3776723330_0a1d41d36a_b.jpg

Andy Kowalik

August 1st, 2009

Well, I’m glad that setting a CC licence means that my photo was shared (urban view).

However, it’s slightly embarrasing as I’ve come to the conclusion that I also prefer subtle HDR, like Maxime above!

Around the time I got into playing with HDR, I wasn’t sure how far you could push it for the sake of abstraction.

Anyway, thanks! And there are so many better pictures here that I’m glad you put the list together!

Dzinepress

August 2nd, 2009

i really like urban creative inspirations, can share something like landscape inspiration.

Deymos

August 2nd, 2009

This is a collection of mostly what HDR should not be. Artificial, fake, overdone, with terrible halo effects. This collection should have been called “When things go (terribly) wrong”. I know, I’ve had plenty. :)

Marc

August 2nd, 2009

My word…

Most of these images have nothing to do with HDR.

So many people think they create an excellent HDR just by playing a bit around with tools like Photomatix et cetera. Wrong. It’s about High Dynamic Range.

Think about that…

Here’s a nice beginners guide:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm

Photoclinique

August 2nd, 2009

My HDR-Section:

http://www.photoclinique.de/tag/hdr/

aj

August 2nd, 2009

Can we please put these images to bed?

I am getting tired of design sites showcasing HDR images. From my findings I can gather the following. They are way too worked images (way past what HDR means) and a lot of them are average photos.

A little more time spent before clicking the button and less in the post could supply the design/photography world with more stunning pictures.

Ilia

August 2nd, 2009

An interesting collection, and some of these are great. However, I have to point out that I don’t think some of these are true HDR. Number 4 (May Day) and 6 (New York Sunset) particularly stand out, but not the only ones. As I understand HDR there is no way to capture a static scene like that, i.e. with people just standing around like in a regular photograph.
HDR photography, as I understand it and probably extremely simplified, involves combining several images of a scene that were shot with different exposure times (using long exposures to brighten up the darker areas). So I don’t see how a picture like “May Day” could’ve been made with HDR – the people would’ve moved between the different pictures taken.

Pete Prodoehl

August 3rd, 2009

Ilia, what about shooting in RAW mode and then creating multiple exposure shots from a single image? (So this would be one step above the speed of shooting with auto-bracketing, which allows multiple exposures in quick succession.)

timsky

August 3rd, 2009

well, my own collection of self-made hdr photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crayzeee/tags/hdr/

and my favourite hdr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crayzeee/3094970567/

Nils Rasmusson

August 3rd, 2009

Interesting collection. I agree with Maxime and others that a lot of these (most?) seem to push HDR past its reasonable threshold. Captivating HDR shows off various exposures without exaggerating everything. This is all a matter of taste but I love the ones like New York City Skyline, but ones like Margaritaville just look like pastel artwork, not photographs. I appreciate them all, though. Thanks for the post.

Bradley Davis

August 7th, 2009

I also agree with Maxime and Nils, some of these just seem to be pushed a little to far. But it is a great collection of stunning photos.

Keith D

August 11th, 2009

Stunning is not the word, it should be… actually I can’t think of a better word.
However, Maxime makes a good point. I didn’t realise initially that they were all photos. Some of them have become drawings, paintings.

SheikhNaveed

August 20th, 2009

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Tutorial using 1 JPG

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Tutorial using 1 JPG states “how to convert simple images into awesome and inspiring one”. Specially beginners will find this tutorial very useful in passion of increasing their HDR skills (HDR using Adobe Photoshop and Photomatix)

see HDR Tutorial here.

Christian Rubarth

August 27th, 2009

Some HDRs are almost lookable (with a little help by a sexy architecture). Some Pics are technically bad. Like so often in HDR there are a lot of misunderstandings about what HDR really means. HDR could be used as an Effect, but it shouldn´t! :)

Ashely Adams

November 26th, 2009

I don’t know much about HDR photography so i can only comment on the final result…City on Fire , Traffic and Lausanne are the ones that i liked the rest didn’t impress me much…..My personal belief is that it would be better if some photos had a little subtlety in them; Margaritaville, Urban View and Dark Shines are too artificial types….

Jorge

April 16th, 2010

For my the best is New York Skyline, Awesome.

Here I share other HDR images.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jneme/sets/72157603347263240/

greg

May 12th, 2010

really nice! I like Toshiro’s HDR photos of Japan too
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/toshiros-hdr-photographs-of-tokyo/

Paul A. Houle

October 6th, 2010

I like some HDR images and find other ones flat. I find #5 and #6 and #21 sublime, but #1, #2, #3 and #7 look more like digital noise than anything else.

If you’re interested in Creative Commons images, you might look at Ookaboo which is collecting thousands of images a day with information extraction and semantic technology.

Giovanna

January 30th, 2011

I would be really interested to know where you find your images from?
Some of those were great but some just terrible :-(

Here is my London Eye HDR http://www.exploretravelphotography.com/gallery/h22354d25#h22354d25

three exposures all 30 secounds each, photomatrix

Keith Moyer

March 14th, 2011

Here are links to some of my urban HDR’s.

http://timetotakepictures.blogspot.com/2011/03/las-vegas-from-eiffel-tower-hdr.html

http://timetotakepictures.blogspot.com/2011/02/skyline-from-link-hdr.html

http://timetotakepictures.blogspot.com/2011/02/western-auto-transformed-hdr.html

http://timetotakepictures.blogspot.com/2011/01/kansas-city-in-high-def-hdr.html

http://timetotakepictures.blogspot.com/2011/01/memorial-reflection-hdr.html

Erin

March 16th, 2011

Hey there. I’m looking for some HDR images that are either public domain or creative commons. (Commercial) Not because I have anything worth selling right now. (I’m still learning :P) But in the future… I don’t want to have images and not be able to use -any- of them because I don’t know which ones were public domain/free to use. I’m learning 3D art and need HDR images mostly for reflections and maybe(???) some backgrounds… though I don’t know about that one for sure lol Don’t know how that works yet. The images you all have posted are absolutely lovely but I don’t want to grab them up without knowing for sure that I can lol :)