# Interesting HDR Photography
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609
**Category:** design
**Created:** [April 14, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609 "2006-04-14T16:59:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/1 "2006-04-14T16:59:14Z")
[http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/04/13/10-pictures-of-tokyo-gotham/](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.
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### Author:  [@gpdesigner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gpdesigner)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/2 "2006-04-15T03:04:29Z")
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
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### Author:  [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/3 "2006-04-15T05:05:19Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@theflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/theflash)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/4 "2006-04-15T06:00:58Z")
Wow this is really cool… I many times wonder on such examples as explained in link… where different objects need differet exposure settings…
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### Author:  [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2006, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/5 "2006-04-15T08:32:44Z")
That effect is really cool!!! I’m going to try and do something similar!
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### Author:  [@gpdesigner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gpdesigner)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/6 "2006-04-15T11:51:35Z")
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
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### Author:  [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/7 "2006-04-15T14:50:04Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/8 "2006-04-15T15:50:33Z")
> [@gpdesigner](#):
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> 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 can’t use the curve adjustment on only one image. The dark areas will be grainy and will lack detail.
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### Author:  [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/interesting-hdr-photography/185609/9 "2006-04-17T18:23:44Z")
Saweeet. Runs off to get camera.