http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/04/13/10-pictures-of-tokyo-gotham/
This is an new interesting form of photography that combines different exposures of the same scene to give it a surreal 3D rendered look.
Those are quite interesting, I was sitting here trying to figure out if I liked them or not. The premise of the article is that it makes the images look like 3d models, and in 3d we use HDRI to gain more reality. . . .
The images are different to look at but it seems that you can almost get those effects using the curves tool or some other filters in PhotoShop.
gp
you get much more control in a hdr image, 32bit floating point colour space more control rather than a 8bit/16bit colour space you would get just using a normal image and curves. In photoshop/bridge you can merge multple images into one hdr image and use the exposure slider to adjust the image with amazing results. Take the 6 or so different exposure images ranging from bright highlights to dark shadows and then basically merge them to have the best of both spectrums.
Wow this is really cool… I many times wonder on such examples as explained in link… where different objects need differet exposure settings…
That effect is really cool!!! I’m going to try and do something similar!
So is this the only way to make HDRI in PhotoShop?
I know how to creat an HDRI in Lightwave, but this is still all cgi.
gp
In photoshop HDRI is not a 3d trick or material or lighting setting, its basically a series of photos usually taken on a tripod with exact camera settings other than different exposure amounts. Which then is converted(or merged) into a single hdr image allowing you to work in 32 bit mode in photoshop.
You can’t use the curve adjustment on only one image. The dark areas will be grainy and will lack detail.
Saweeet. Runs off to get camera.
