The Japanese landscape makes a stunning subject for high dynamic range (HDR) photography, as demonstrated by these images and the 500+ others in the Japan HDR Flickr Photo Pool.
Nihonbashi [Tokyo] -- Photo: Altus
Wave Gate [Numazu] -- Photo: Altus
Cloudy Day in Gotokuji [Tokyo] -- Photo: stu72
No.6 [Kanagawa prefecture] -- Photo: dokool
Machinery [Nippori station, Tokyo] -- Photo: heiwa4126
Landmark Tower and Minato Mirai 21 [Yokohama] -- Photo: shinnygogo
Shibuya Backstreet [Tokyo] -- Photo: yongfook
Shoovi
That is fantastic. Besides plants, mountains and people I love in Japan small trucks. I mean they looks big but comparing with European's are just medium to small, but are cute ;) looks like pretty cool toys ;)
[]Apple Otaku
I'm always amazed by the unreal feel of HDR photography. Hopefully, in-camera HDR will eventually become a reality.
[]Dragonclaws
Wow, that's cool. Looks like imagery from a graphic novel the way they made it.
[].c
Even good photographs can be ruined by poor masking, what a shame. Someone needs to improve.
[]Neil Duckett
Fantastic pictures! Some of the colours are amazing.
[]LOL
Anyone who thinks that this is lame or need to be improved is merely a loser..
[]Gunga Dean
I thought it was GREAT & doesn't need to be improved !!!
[]Okinawa
Cool, I shoot HDR in Japan also.
[]Dave Bell
It's always going to look odd, because we don't have an HDR display. Back in the days of film, you could get a good record of about 7 stops brightness range, and because the gamma curve wasn't a straight line, some compressed detail at the extremes.
And then you had to match it to photographic paper which could show maybe 6 stops brightness at most. More gamma curve tweaking: it's what the contrast grade of the paper, and the selection of the precise exposure for the print, were all about.
And you have to do some of the same with a computer monitor. The 8-bit brightness range of standard graphics is the same as 8 stops in photography, and there's some of the same problem of the brightness range of the monitor. So here we are with HDR images, and somehow they have to be adjusted to look right on the equipment we use.
And "looking right" is always something of an artistic choice, whether in the digital world or in the traditional darkroom. And if the intent is to squeeze the brightness range onto a standard monitor, it's going to look a bit off.
Me, I have a Weston meter, and I know how to use it.
[]okinawa
Beautiful stuff, love it all!
[]Dane
HDR is lame.
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