50 Awesome Examples of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography:
1. Canal Dreams
St. Petersburg is famous with its canals. This is a view of the Church of the Resurrection along the Griboyedov Canal from Nevsky Prospect.Griboyedov Canal or Kanal Griboyedova is a canal in Saint Petersburg, constructed in 1739 on the basis of the existing river Krivusha. In 1764–1790, the canal was deepened, and the banks were reinforced and covered with granite.
2. Sunflower
The picture is deliberately exaggerated the settings to give a dramatic tone to the scene. The photo was taken a few minutes before a thunderstorm.
3. The Lost Hindu Temple in the Jungle Mist
Exploration of the temples of Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, which were three of the largest in the complex. All the temple blocks were on the edge of collapse, after many centuries of Indonesian earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
4. Taj Mahal-India
India is a beautiful and magical place. I wish I could say my journey to get to this exact vantage point was the just as beautiful and magical, but it was not.
5. Tuk tuks in the rain
It was raining hard in Bangkok and these tuk tuk drivers were lined up in Chinatown waiting for a fare. The driver nearest seems to be looking inquiringly at me asking “Have you got a light?” for his cigarette. This HDR from a single shot processed in Photomatix.
6. Valencia art
While in Valencia I shot a few things with the idea I would process for creativity when I got home.These are HDR’s created from 3 separate exposures shot handheld as we were walking about the city.
7. Thank u Lord
This is an emotive portrait of the photographer on the fields of lavender in Poland. To get the widest angle possible he used the 17mm Tamron lens and also used a polarizing filter. At home to add few special characteristics I made this a HDR photograph. Hope you like it.
8. HDR Street
Amazing hdr photos by Toni Verdú Carbó, talented urban and architectural photographer, based in Girona, Spain.
9. Reverse
10. Plane symmetry
Plane Symmetry HDR at Boston MA
11. Full moon rise close up
Here’s a close up shot of the full moon rise from the Lake Worth Lagoon shoot I did last week. Single exposure HDR image process using Photomatix HDR software.
12. Giving food to Monks
Monks can be seen out and about early in the morning giving blessing to those who hand out donation in the form of rice. It was cool to see them out in the market. I only had a few seconds to get the shot because their blessings aren’t that long. I mange to get one decent image from the set.
13. Corel Cove Life guard tower
This is going to be a quick post… heading up to Vero to shoot with some friends, currently it’s 5am in the morning! Anyways… I took this photo a few months back and I remember this morning being a very strange sunrise. The color that was casted over the beach that day had a pinkish-yellow tone to it that made everything pastel like. It was interesting to say the least.
14. Little dog in Alicante
The area around Alicante has been inhabited for over 7000 years, with the first tribes of hunter gatherers moving down gradually from Central Europe between 5000 and 3000 BC. Some of the earliest settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil.
15. Red Walls and Tissues
Color full street in the little harbor of Henningsvær, on Lofoten Islands. That street and the houses on each side are build on stilts over the water.
16. Bike in the Snow
17. The Orange Peel
In the 80′s and early 90′s this used to be a busy pub/nightclub for holidaymakers in Rhyl. Sad to see its decline, I could still hear the music and see the flashing lights, as I took the images.
18. Sunset Over Lake in Palm Beach County Florida
This lake has turned out to be one of my favorite lakes in Palm Beach County. At first it doesn’t look like much but what I see with my eyes and what comes out as a picture is completely different. This is what beginner photographers struggle with, seeing the shot that will translate into a beautiful photograph.
19. China town
The Paifang at the northern end of Dixon St, entry to Sydney’s Chinatown. HDR, 5 exposures.
20. Blue Room
Inside a large antiques store in Largo, Florida.
21. In the Waste Lands
An old dray just left in a paddock. This was taken between Quorn and Hawker in the north of South Australia.
22. Parallel Universe
Walking from the sunlight into the parallel universe. 7 exposure non-static HDR.
23. Life Guard tower Sunrise Singer island beach
24. Water wheels Ruins
Found this old waterwheel, wheelhouse that was burned long ago.
25. Dark Knight
26. JCB on the Orme
A lot of work is going on at the Orme, getting it ready for the summer visitors.
27. Hotel Lounge
28. Small Temple in Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat, the destination for most travelers visiting Cambodia. What most people don’t know is that there are two different temples in Angkor Wat. The small temple and the big temple, or better known by the locals as the Little Wat and the Big Wat.
29. Yellow tint Apartment
Amazing hdr photos by Toni Verdú Carbó, talented urban and architectural photographer, based in Girona, Spain.
30. Hokitika Sunset
Once a year, New Zealand holds the Wildwoods Festival in Hokitika, a small (and I mean really small) town on the west coast of the South Island. It is probably the one day all year in which more than 100 people are within 3 miles of the place.
31. The Last Dance
32. Strom out side the door
Storm rolling in off Lake Michigan in Holland.
33. Acido sulfurico
Somewhere near the Chilean border our fearless driver, king of the Altiplano, Valerio, overtakes another vehicle. October 2007.
34. Old Machine
35. Happy Cow
36. Church Hall
37. French quarter court yard
3 photo HDR taken at Disneyland in March, 2011. Typically an empty courtyard, it provided a few great locations for some long exposure photography. Being new to HDR photography, this is a quick compilation in PS CS5.
38. Girls Preparing fish for sale
Captain Kimo’s Best HDR Photos from 2011.
39. Camel Handler
HDR photo-processing lends itself better to certain kinds of photography. I like it for showing people who are working. It seems it adds a texture to the photo that shows how hard-working the subjects are. This photo was taken on a 4WD tour of the desert around Dubai.
40. Motorcycle
41. Screech Owl
Each whiskery feather is visible in this wonderful HDR photo of a screech-owl, taken in Florida. There are 21 known species of screech-owl and new ones are being discovered all the time.
42. Lizard
HDR brings out the rainbow colors of this lizard’s facial scales. This shot was taken in Mexico with a Nikon D80 camera and a 70-200mm f/2.8 VR lens. It was processed with Photomatix and Light room.
43. Gloom
44. Subaru Impreza WRC
45. Altus
46. HDR Rome
47. Shimen
Taken in the city of Shimen in Hunan province. Nobody really knows this city even though 750.000 people live there. Crazy.
48. Belgium Royal 4C Coffee Maker
We had some hours to kill in Changsha, before flying back to Shanghai, so we were taken to a coffee place, where we had a couple of glasses brewed with this machine. What a smooth, deep, great taste!
49. Hunan
From Changsha we drove 5 hours or so to Shimen to spend another night there. Then we drove to the tea mountains of the Hunan Tea Company and shot some footage with the workers and manager there.
50. Shanghai-Taikang Road
Which of the above did you like the most and why? Do you like real images? Do you like real images that have been tweaked via Photoshop? Or do you like those images that are completely hand or machine made? Please tell me in the comments below with your supporting reasons. I’m curious to know.
