Photography has always tried to capture reality, or show us an alternate view of reality, but in many situations it just doesn’t do justice to the real thing. Now digital photography has brought us HDR.

Photo courtesy of Stuck In Customs

High Dynamic Range

In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

I am absolutely in love with the effect HDR gives to a scene. It’s so non-traditional that I know a lot of photographers don’t feel it is true to the art of photography, but I think it is a rare opportunity to evolve the artform. I think back through history when the invention of the photograph brought the practice of framing and perspective into use in finer arts, digital photography could leave a similar mark with HDR.

Interested in more on HDR? You can read up a bit more on the techniques of HDR at an amazingly informative article Stuck In Customs has. You can also check out this flickr page of a photographer who does some great HDR works as well as some very cool experimentations with HDR and Stereographic Projections (My favourite being here and here).

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