HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. Basically the idea is that a normal imaging tools (digital cameras, crt and lcd screens, etc) can't capture or display the large range of light to dark values that the eye can see at one time. To compensate, several exposures of a scene are taken at various exposure settings (the above was made from three shots, one at 1.3 stops overexposed to get shadow detail, one at 1.3 stops under exposed to get highlight detail, and one right in the middle for all the middle tones), and then mashed up together all fancily and voila.
funny, though, the image on the right is the hdr. see the blue sky? in the original the sky was much brighter than the rest of the image, so it overexposed. when i was standing there i could see the blue in the sky. there's a lot of tweaking that should be done to get a better image, but i was too lazy to fiddle. still, i now have my own visual test of what can be done.
yeah, when it's overdone it looks totally fake, almost rendered, which, i guess it is. massive haloing = a thomas kincade painting. i have so much to learn about HDR!
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funny, though, the image on the right is the hdr. see the blue sky? in the original the sky was much brighter than the rest of the image, so it overexposed. when i was standing there i could see the blue in the sky. there's a lot of tweaking that should be done to get a better image, but i was too lazy to fiddle. still, i now have my own visual test of what can be done.
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