High Dynamic Range Phtography (HDR)
I heard about High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) from a computer graphics engineer rendering computer games who enthused about the technology in his area “bright things can be really bright, dark things can be really dark and details can be seen in both”. Burnt highlights and detail-less shadows are my pet bugbears so I set out to learn and explore how to apply HDRI to still photography, particularly landscape and architectural photography.
I now use HDRI in maybe 80% of my creative photography producing HDR images with drama and impact that has now become my personal photographic style.
I wrote an article on HDR for The Royal Photographic Society's DIGIT Special Interest Group. Click the thumbnail on the left to view/download a PDF version (800k).
The slideshow above contains some of my favourite HDR images.
