30 Incredible HDR Photos of New York City

[rec]

Some of these are truly outstanding...

30 Incredible HDR Photos of New York City | JetSetta

[Aegis]

wow, that's some really nice work there - and now i finally get what the buzz about HDR is about - every single HDR image I'd seen til now had massive bloom in it. love how some of those photos make new york look like a computer game level.

[Wrathlon]

Over powering bloom shits me to no end....those images on the other hand are awesome.

[UnSCaRReD]

Awesome.
As you say some don't even look like photographs.

[Milenko]

Got me wondering how he did it, unless his camera has an auto-HDR mode?
True HDR Photos with moving subjects, i thought, would have been impossible.

[Aegis]

think the pic of the theatre(?!) shows blurred cars in the street - that was probably done properly while the rest were 'shopped

[Milenko]

Just had a bit of a go at this HDR thing this morning.
I need to find areas that have more contrasting colours.....god I wish I lived in a City that had interesting architecture...or just anything interesting at all to shoot.
My HDR just came out looking like a regular old photo :/

[kernal]

Nice effot Lenko.... I had a play around with HDR photography for a bit and it was complete FAIL. haven't attempted to try again lately, given that my camera has decided to crap itself. I found a nice Photoshop tutorial a while back that made HDR look-a-like images from one image, but found that it very rarely worked. (will see if i can fish out my best example)... *please hold*

[Milenko]

Yeah i read that as well - it required a fucktonnery of filters and stuff though yeah?

The only difference between the before and after of the above pic; is that it's...more blue. Thats about it :p
I might have to try low-light like a lot of those linked in the OP were. See if it makes a difference.

[Aegis]

if HDR via PS is just a matter of applying a shitload of filters in a specific order, there'd be a batchfile floating around on the net to do it for you.

[Milenko]

The tutorial I read for it used about 3-4 different stand alone programs and involved a fair amount of manual 'tone-mapping'; whatever the hell that is.

[paladin]

Just had a bit of a go at this HDR thing this morning.
I need to find areas that have more contrasting colours.....god I wish I lived in a City that had interesting architecture...or just anything interesting at all to shoot.
My HDR just came out looking like a regular old photo :/

the most disturbing thing about this image is that it means lenko was lurking near my house in the early hours of the morning

[kernal]

can't find the tutorial i used, but i did find. Fake HDR, Pseudo HDR <--- that!

not bad... not sure how much i would use it though. I think if i were to use HDR i would do it properly.

[Milenko]

Especially because the concept of HDR is actually so simple. AEB -2 / 0 / +2 and a tripod.

[Zacwah]

Yer i have had a go but havent come up with anything good. The best way to get good ones is to have a camera that does 5 stops of AEB. Get alot more range then.