A couple of HDR images taken by my brother:

Driveway poser shot


During the rainstorm we had this week (doesn't happen to often here in sunny Dubai)


In the desert last weekend after the rain


cheers for looking

 

Sweet pics man < have you checked out that new skyscaper out there yet? I would love to BASE jump from that thing .

 

those pics are sweet.
how do you do that?

 

Awesome pics! I would love to have a couple of my JK like that!

 

very nice pictures, job well done to your brother!

 

Not been up the tower yet, but it was the opening ceremony the other day, you may have seen it on the tv.... it is pretty sweet, a couple of guys already base jumped it last year, check it out on youtube

 

Thanks man, It was my brother that took the pics, I believe that you have to have the camera on a certain setting then take 3 identicle pictures, load them into a program which then overlays them all on top of each other... something like that anyway, I just tell him to shoot and make me a cool pic.

 

As dxbjeep mentioned, you have to take several pictures of the same object but they are no identical. You will either need a camera that takes several pictures, all with different exposure times, or manually do it on a standard digital camera. Once you have all of your pictures with different exposure levels you need a program to align them all. Qtpfsgui (yes it is a real program ) is one of the best HDR programs I have used and it is FREE!

 

Just as an FYI those are not HDR photos. HDR is for High Dynamic Range. True HDR photos do not have the 'cartoony/fake' look to them. They capture all the details of the highlights without them being blow out and all the details of the shadows without them being dark. As well as all in between.

An HDR is created by taking multiple exposres when it is required and a single exposure will not be able to expose everything correctly.

What the above photos are is tone mapping and they have a bad 'halo' effect on them which is very obvious. Almost like a glow. It looks like a LOT of the shadow/highlight tool was used in Photoshop.



Sorry I am a photography and when I see/read 'hdr' I tend to rant.

 

Those do look like tone mapped photos from a single exposure, however, an HDR photo can be made to look cartoony as well.