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- nyeus, on 03/01/2008, -6/+181If only there was a way of seeing the world like this all the time....
...Drugs maybe? - supertom2, on 03/01/2008, -9/+146I hate being colour blind
- coheedcollapse, on 03/01/2008, -19/+135I hate how suddenly anyone who knows how to run Photomatix is suddenly a brilliant artist. No matter the subject matter (A BMW parked on the side of a road...seriously?), people can impress others through insane amounts of HDR.
I completely respect a lot of HDR (HDR that isn't overused-made to match what it really looked like rather than some crazy fantasy world), but most of these just don't excite me. - Renton, on 03/01/2008, -4/+94He still has a point. Isn't the purpose of HDR to show pictures as the human eye would see them?
- FeartheKnighted, on 03/01/2008, -5/+89It was an Audi
- camaroz06, on 03/01/2008, -4/+70w00t, more sub par HDR!!!!
Thanks! - archistudent, on 03/01/2008, -13/+70The future of desktop wallpaper...
- ats314, on 03/01/2008, -1/+58eating shrooms was the first thing i thought of.
- anti_hax0r, on 03/01/2008, -31/+77WOW color blind and British - sucks to be you.
- swordedge, on 03/01/2008, -6/+50I'd like to own a camera that does this upon taking the picture.
When the HDR spec was designed, that was the intent. Not 256 shades of red, infinity shades of read (floating point number instead of a byte) - bagelpirate, on 03/01/2008, -8/+44This is mind bottleing.
- coheedcollapse, on 03/01/2008, -1/+36That's a side effect of not actually knowing how to properly process HDR.
- DarkerMaster, on 03/01/2008, -4/+38Did you just say mind bottling?
- Falldog, on 03/01/2008, -1/+35Somehow I doubt that cow is really HDR. How the hell could they get it to not move for three separate exposures?
Simple HDR like the firetruck and the last boat are good, overdoing it like the Golden Gate one? Bloody awful. Besides, a boring photo is still boring even with HDR *****. - micklerlop, on 03/01/2008, -11/+44enough of HDR photos
- battleroyalex, on 03/01/2008, -3/+34They just look fake.. I don't think they are that great
- cugar, on 03/01/2008, -0/+29hdr done right is so great looking, some of these are more than awesome, but some are just horrendous
- nstanosheck, on 03/01/2008, -5/+34Hey mom, I just took a real-life picture and made it look fake! Yay me!
- Dan137exe, on 03/01/2008, -1/+26Yeah, mind bottling. You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?
- floridiot2, on 03/01/2008, -10/+35LOSE
- Bagrad, on 03/01/2008, -3/+28I don't wanna get technical, but a bunch of those images only play with "shadow/highlights" settings in photoshop, and some I find really ugly...( http://flickr.com/photos/kayxf004/2235001243/sizes ... or http://flickr.com/photos/elementalpaul/2261257446/ ... )
- chamberlanderic, on 03/01/2008, -6/+31can we get bigger size for wallpaper purpose?
- sharkd, on 03/01/2008, -1/+25How can something be *more* realistic than real life?
- ozid, on 03/01/2008, -0/+23calm down, man.
- EssPii, on 03/01/2008, -3/+24Mmmm nothing like the muddy contrast and ugly halo's around highlight/shadow transitions that HDR entails!
http://esspea-photography.com/blog/ - potisreallygood, on 03/01/2008, -1/+21>3 hits of acid. Absolutely amazing, being in the woods with a fire, thousands of people with glowsticks and some music in the distance is a good enviroment too. The aurora borealis shine in the midwest and the stars have a tendency to move at warp speed, ever so gently and peaceful though. Look out for the trees, they have leaves and try not to fall off the planet or anything at all really. I need summer, so i can go back to funky space land and funk it with other funky beings around the solar system. It's my happy place.
- Kristin5907, on 03/01/2008, -3/+23These pictures were neat but if you ask me, I would like to see what the person taking the picture is actually seeing. You can take remarkable pictures without having to change or modify it in some way. I guess I just like natural scenic photos. Actually I found a site from reading digg that I love.
http://www.jpgmag.com/
It is a collection of photos, unmodified, submitted my by average photographers.
Those pictures, in my opinion, are the mind blowing ones. - ozid, on 03/01/2008, -2/+21yep. i was going to post something along those lines. HDR is so that you can capture under/overexposed parts of the picture so it looks like we see it.
I hate when people exaggerate it. If I wanted to see pictures like that, there's a company that sells a photoshop filter that makes your pics look just like that. - AXNJAXN, on 03/01/2008, -0/+19The idea is that if we have more shades of red in between, we can artificially raise the dynamic range and the contrast without introducing a lot of noise.
- karaokekidd, on 03/01/2008, -1/+17Can somebody point me to higher res HDR pictures?
- VinceNoir, on 03/01/2008, -0/+15If you have more dynamic range, when you boost or cut certain color values, your image won't suffer from truncation errors that result in poor dithering.
- SohailKhanifar, on 03/01/2008, -0/+14I wonder, is it possible to film in hdr?
- shawnanigans, on 03/01/2008, -8/+22Or Canadian, or Australian, or New Zealander or any English speaking country but the US.
- inactive, on 03/01/2008, -2/+15if your mind is "blown" by that you need a few more brain cells.
- shortyjacobs, on 03/01/2008, -0/+13IT'S A SPACE STA......
no wait, it's an Audi....
*****, my bad. - kertong, on 03/01/2008, -0/+11Hey supertom - don't be so discouraged.
Picture #10 (http://flickr.com/photos/warzauwynn/2253563721/in/ ... was taken by a friend of mine, and he is red-green color-blind. Check out his flickr page - he does some amazing photography. http://www.flickr.com/photos/warzauwynn/ - TheDowntownKing, on 03/01/2008, -1/+12mind=still intact
- ep53, on 03/01/2008, -2/+13Because youre so free and liberal being an American....
- CTK14A, on 03/01/2008, -0/+10'Is this a movie or a Skittles commercial?' - Entourage
- LittleFishChan, on 03/01/2008, -9/+19It would appear that all of these HDR photos look better than the image my brain perceives with my eyes (Non HDR?). If you could make an HDR video that looks like these pictures, would it in effect look more realistic than real life?
- orxor, on 03/01/2008, -0/+10Actually most of these are pretty bad. It shows you how much of a gimmick HDR is if the photographer is so bad he can't even get the horizon straight and considers that photo to be worthy of sharing, I have nothing against HDR but I'm far more impressed with photographers actually using skill to generate great photos rather than just popping a few landscape photos into an application that will fix over/underexposed areas for them and generate cartoony colors.
- SlapAyoda, on 03/01/2008, -0/+9The submitter has horrible taste in photography. None of these images look even remotely realistic, they all look like LSD-induced candyland versions of reality, which would appeal to toddlers or idiots. Why turn a photograph into something that looks like an illustration?
- shortyjacobs, on 03/01/2008, -0/+9Sooooooooo.....
Good food then? - eSorghum, on 03/01/2008, -1/+10I humbly chime in with what appears to be an unpopular opinion. Let's look at the big picture, shall we? (pardon the pun)
The "whole point" of a photograph is to capture a permanent image, regardless of the technology used. Simply living with the limitations of previously used technologies is NOT the "whole point" of a photograph. Every permanent image created by capturing light on a light-sensitive surface can be technically considered a photograph. Whether it is negative film that is chemically processed and printed on paper, or if it is a collection of binary information electronically processed and printed on paper (or sent to your display), it is still a photograph.
If too many photographers used this type of logic ("but sometimes you can't capture the best instances of what you see.") throughout the history of photography, we would not enjoy color film and digital photography we see today. We would only consider real "photographs" ones that were made with the earliest possible equipment, perhaps daguerreotypes. Before the Autochrome became available in 1907, the only permanent images were monochrome (and had been for about 80 years). Before Fairchild Semiconductor made the first CCD available to the market, film photography was considered the "only way" to make photographs.
I have no problem if people express their distaste for a photograph. They have every right to do so (in the US, at least for the most part). Photographs mapped from HDR images (or any other technique) range from utterly dreadful to unbelievably spectacular, in my opinion. The images in this post cover almost that entire range, in my opinion. The technique itself is not entirely responsible, but the sum of the combination of talent, knowledge, and skill of the photographer.
I caught the photography bug taking photos with an old Pentax, and developing film in the dark room of my high school 20 years ago. I have utmost respect for those who still go through the painstaking process of developing their own film and use cameras that have no electronics, and still produce images that are appealing. I have the same respect for people who forge ahead with new technology, as I have moved ahead to my dSLR. Despite all the haters throughout the history of photography that insist that old technologies are the only possible way to produce an image that has artistic appeal, history proves them wrong.
I can't wait for the day that HDR is considered the "old technology", and we can debate the merits of some other new technology. - saxreturns, on 03/01/2008, -0/+8These pictures are actually very close to how I saw the world during a mushroom trip... here come the flashbacks!
- evi1, on 03/01/2008, -3/+11That's no BMW...
- inactive, on 03/01/2008, -1/+8How exactly do you think they do HDR?
- blinker265, on 03/01/2008, -1/+8thank you, i know what a ***** audi looks like, and even if i didnt, i would realize that the audi isnt purple. before this became a popular digg, there were more pictures on it, and there was a purple VW. so thanks for being a dick
- coheedcollapse, on 03/01/2008, -5/+12I, you, or literally anyone you know could take that photo at any time. I'm sorry, but when anyone can take a photo and run it through a filter to make it look appealing, it's really hard to appreciate.
Personally, when I look at a photo, I look for composition and reality. I want to know that the place that was photographed is really that beautiful in real life and not some overproduced piece of fiction. - ispeakasian, on 03/01/2008, -10/+17Aaaaah my mind is blown.
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