abduzeedo.com— I was looking around for some new HDR pictures and found this great one from a car race. That's when i decided to make a third part of our series "20 Beautiful HDR Pictures". Hope this will never end.
Jun 27, 2008View in Crawl 4
isn't being an elitist technically a good thing? I think you're after a word more closely linked to discrimination. I'm amazed at this new terminology as an insult...
Actually no, Dynamic range is not affected whatsoever by how many bits per channel an image is stored with. A typical camera takes photos with 5 or so stops difference between the darkest and lightest part of your image. You could throw 16bits per channel to store the color information, but the dynamic range will still be limited to 5 stops. If you upped the depth to 24bit per channel, you would still have a dynamic range of 5 stops. Just more granularity between the darkest and brightest parts of the image. When you take photos at multiple exposures, you are capturing extra stops of light outside of what would normally captured in a single photo (eg, the detail lost in a fully whited out reflection, or the detail lost in a dark shadow). When combined together, this creates an HDR. So an HDR image may contain 15 or more stops of light information, and if done correctly, they will contain everything from the very darkest shadow in the scene, to the brightest highlight visible. That is when you apply a tone mapping algorithm, which when done correctly, should mimic what the eye sees when looking at a contrasty scene.Let me know if this is a clear enough explanation, and if not, I'll go into more detail.
jezperJun 27, 2008
FFS!! Only two of these are actual HDR photos. The rest is Photomatix and/or Photoshop. Stop it.
poltronJun 28, 2008
STi with dirt all over was hot
hammeredJun 28, 2008
What are you talking about? That's an excellent shot of vomit, one of the best I've seen.Looks like Hotdogs and pizza.
lukakJun 28, 2008
isn't being an elitist technically a good thing? I think you're after a word more closely linked to discrimination. I'm amazed at this new terminology as an insult...
dismantlerepairJun 28, 2008
Just because you can capture a high dynamic range, doesn't mean you should.
m4xn00bJun 28, 2008
EEEAAHHH!!! MY EYES ARE VOMITING!!
monsteretteJul 3, 2008
...absolutely fabulous photos!
auraboltJul 3, 2008
Anyone else scrolling through all the comments middle-clicking the links?--> Firefox addon: Linkification if you're not
daz_geneticJul 18, 2008
Actually no, Dynamic range is not affected whatsoever by how many bits per channel an image is stored with. A typical camera takes photos with 5 or so stops difference between the darkest and lightest part of your image. You could throw 16bits per channel to store the color information, but the dynamic range will still be limited to 5 stops. If you upped the depth to 24bit per channel, you would still have a dynamic range of 5 stops. Just more granularity between the darkest and brightest parts of the image. When you take photos at multiple exposures, you are capturing extra stops of light outside of what would normally captured in a single photo (eg, the detail lost in a fully whited out reflection, or the detail lost in a dark shadow). When combined together, this creates an HDR. So an HDR image may contain 15 or more stops of light information, and if done correctly, they will contain everything from the very darkest shadow in the scene, to the brightest highlight visible. That is when you apply a tone mapping algorithm, which when done correctly, should mimic what the eye sees when looking at a contrasty scene.Let me know if this is a clear enough explanation, and if not, I'll go into more detail.