Car Crash HDR

[vipernet]

Hey all, I know it's not really a picture of a car crash, but I was in a car crash and just happened to have my d70 on me and I thought that I'd try and make my first ever thread here at least semi interesting Whilst waiting for the recovery vehicle I noticed the sun setting next too an empty office building. I balanced the camera on a pole and took 3 shots +/-2 steps and came up with the pic below. Might still be a bit ott for non-hdr lovers

[Hans Voralberg]

Nice, but the building looks uhm weird ? kinda an alien looks, but nice effort

[Sinizter]

Nice effort ....
Does the building have a halo around the edges ? Happens if you blend exposures which are too different or if you oversharpen. But then it could just be my screen.

[jimbouk]

That does look freeky and cool! Even the plant life at the front looks alien.

[g8ina]

I'm also just starting to play with HDR and am finding it fascinating. I like this shot for it's other worldly aspect

[Dark Horse]

The halo looks a bit odd but overall it has a good surreal feel to it.

[vipernet]

lol, cheers guys. I appreciate your comments and the reason why I processed it as such was to interprate what I saw in front of me. It was a wierd, surreal building, like something alien. I think I've portrayed that accurately in my photo and I like it

[jamena]

I like it! Dunno enough to comment further, except to say only thing I'd be tempted to do (if such a thing is possible) would be to reduce the sort of "glow" eminating from the roof of the building which I suppose is some artefact of the HDR-ing?

[HoldenBurn1000]

I love it. Personally I love the glow around it. You have the pic any bigger?

[machinist]

n00b alert ! What is HDR ? I like it

[jamena]

HDR = High Dynamic Range

In truth (I think!) these images are tone-mapped to simulate the way your eyes would adjust to different light intensities while looking around a scene, rather than true HDR as your montior would not be able to display actual HDR (I've seen a prototype using a projector to pump light through a TFT screen to increase the dynamic range to something very large - 100,000:1 could have been something like it)

it's quite fun to try out though you will find not to everyone's tastes.

[Million]

That's cool, almost looks CGI. Nuclear holocaust in the background

[Whiternoise]

I love it

So.. how exactly does this HDR thing work?