Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’

City of Sin Las Vegas HDR

written on February 26th, 2010 with no comments

 

Las Vegas, Nevada – the lights, the sounds, the people.  What a place!  Vegas isn’t just about the hopes of going and coming home a winner though.  We just came back from Vegas and it was my very first trip.  Since I was too busy loosing money, I didn’t get to capture the essence that is the ‘City of Sin’.  So I searched Flickr and found some awesome HDR images.  Some of the images you will see can inspire you to keep going back for more.

Let’s explore Vegas through some of the amazing images created for us in HDR by people from across the world.

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20 HDR Storm Chasers

written on February 17th, 2010 with 2 comments

 

With most of us across the country snowed in and just about snowed out, we hope that Mother Nature is taking a long sleep as she’s been a very busy lady lately.

To follow through with nature’s mood, let’s take a glance at some astonishing HDR images of nature at it’s finest (or worst as the case may be) from the Creative Commons area at Flickr.

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25 Awesome HDR Images and Tuts

written on February 12th, 2010 with 4 comments

 

You know Flickr never stops to amaze me. The quality of photography on the wildly popular website is simply awesome, and puts some of the so-called photography stock image sites to shame. In recent times the popularity of HDR images has been fueled, in part, by the staggering number of photographers contributing their latest works to the site.

So what exactly are HDR photographs and images? Wikipedia probably explains it best:

High-dynamic-range photographs are generally achieved by capturing multiple standard photographs, often using exposure bracketing, and then merging them into an HDR image. Digital photographs are often encoded in a camera’s raw image format, because 8 bit JPEG encoding clips the camera’s possible dynamic range (and also introduces undesirable effects due to the lossy compression).

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