High Dynamic Range

High Dynamic Range Imaging also know as HDRI or HDR creates an image that looks more brighter, clearer, and more creative.  The correct definition for HDR is a "set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques".  It starts with taking three of the same photo, the first one is dark, second one is normal and the third one is light and all merge in together with using photoshop.   With taking one of these photos, with photoshop you can either make them look darker or more brighter.  

Taxi, New York by Tonist L
This example of HRD of a Taxi in New York caught my eye when  I was looking up HDR because it was very bright and very appealing.  I love the look of the buildboards, how they are extremely bright in the front and dark and gloomy in the back as well as the sky looks amazing.  

Lamborghini Gallardo by Robert Himler 

I love the look of this photo because it shows the unique qualities of the sky and how bright it is.  When I look at this photo it just looks so magical more than the original would look like.  It was taken with 5 exposures(-2,-1, 0, +1, +2).  Also the Gallardo just makes the photo complete.   

Ciryscape of Girona Spain by Unknown

This photo of the lake shows the brightness of the sky, also expanding more of the lake with a brighter reflection.  I love the look of the branches that hover over the photo and just overall its a very bright photo where as there isn't much darkness in the photo where there is in a HDR photo.   

David Walking by Katie Brown

For my HDR, I took a photo of David walking towards the field.  When I edited this photo, it became more brighter and made it stand out more.  Doing this made the photo look 100 times better than the normal photo looked like. It also looks like he is walking into the light.  All together, I think this HDR turned out great. 

Justin Quinnell

Justin Quinnell is a talented photographer and is well known of taking smily cam images, slow light images, black & white, and different types of color images through Pinhole photography.  My three favorites on his site he has posted are "Bert", "Dentist" and "Clifton Suspension Bridge".

The content being used in "Bert" is by using a Sesame Street Character to capture a image in Justin's mouth.  The process is when the shutter takes place when he opens his mouth, exposes the photo paper, takes a quick snap than closes his mouth and the image is not exposed anymore.  I have chosen this image because when I was growing up, I used to love watching Sesame Street, and Bert was one of my favorites, as well as Ernie.

The content being used in "Dentist" is by having a visit at the dentist and surprising the dentist with taking a picture of him without knowing.  The process is the same as the one above, Bert, when the shutter takes place when he opens his mouth, exposes the photo paper, takes a quick snap than closes his mouth so the image is not exposed.  I have chosen this image because I enjoy the fact that his dentist didn't know that he was going to take an image of him while being there.  Also, I like that his teeth have a very rotten look to them.

The content used in this photo "Clifton Suspension Bridge" is having the photo paper being exposed, so that you can see the path of the sun which is called Solargraphy.  The process that he had used was by using a film canister or a pop can and had exposed the photo paper for about six months.  I have chosen this image because I like the modern look of the bridge in the photo and that the path of the sun is perfectly angled.


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