As the old saying says – everything old is new again. As unbelievable as it may seem but HDR photography is actually not new at all.
According to Wikipedia “high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques.”
The idea to use several exposures to fix a too-extreme range of luminance came to Gustave Le Gray in the 1850s. To create seascapes showing both the sky and the sea which was impossible at the time considering the luminosity range of the standard techniques being too extreme, Le Gray used one negative for the sky, and another one with a longer exposure for the sea and combined these two in a single picture in positive.
The age of digital photography gave the High Dynamic Range photography new techniques that Gustave Le Gray couldn’t even imagine at the 1850s but the fundamentals are still the same.
There are several ways to create HDR. The most popular one is the one Le Gray suggested when a high dynamic range image is created from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. The digital techniques of our age (Photoshop for instance) allow creating synthetic HDR images from one single exposure.
Properly used HDR techniques create magnificent images that boggle the imagination and raze the boundaries between reality and illusion. Here is the selection of incredible HDR images, just look how unbelievable the world around us is!

Marlow Lock HDR  -  FreePhotoResources

Crossing over II  -   VitaR

The Crystal Cascades of Mt Washington HDR  -  friday1970

Falling For You    -   pendeho

Lake Cumberland butte   -  haglundc

stairs   -  evtwal

falling  -  MorBCN

The last sunray – Barcelona

arches landscape   -   climberforlife

Egypt   -    cienki777

suck on this – T1ger

Portland   -   symphony-x

Veteran train     -    carlzon

HDR LAKE   -  dolceribelle

Balea Lake   -  ScorpionEntity

cerdanya    -  med3s

Dubrovnik   -   Sedma

Lost   -  BadiB

Roman View   -  VeryBadGirl

Rainbow - [ Kane ]

Oasis Sunset  -  /\ltus

Fields of Hay – JPM Imaging

The Golden Horn Panoroma  -   iguzelsoy

Molinos de viento en el Campo de Criptana, Castilla La Mancha  -   marcp_dmoz

The Veins of Bangkok    -  Stuck in Customs

So, what do you think about HDR, isn’t it cool?

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