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(High Dynamic Range) A photographic technique in which several shots are taken of the same high-contrast scene at different exposures. Highlights from the underexposed images and shadows from the overexposed frames are blended together to create a more natural look.
Some of Jakob's HDR images of Pudong skyscrapers look like artist renditions of future projects. Some look like they were pulled from the pages of a neo-noir graphic novel. And others just look a little too perfect.
Definitely worth checking out. Visit Jakob's "Visual OverKILL!" set or his "Heavy editing" collection.
Got HDR or other heavily edited photos of Shanghai you want to share? Tell us where to find them in a comment.
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I am... speechless... Wake up... Featured on Shanghaiist...
Thanks, Dan!
Although I have to, well, "correct" this sentence:
A photographic technique in which several shots are taken of the same high-contrast scene at different exposures.
In my case, with these pictures, I just took a "RAW" picture instead of good old JPEG, most DSLR cameraws can do that - that is enough nowadays to create a HDR, software like Photomatix will automatically save different exposures out of your RAW file. Pretty neat. I'd love to link to my HDR tutorial but my blog is down, and the german staff is on easter holiday - sorry!
Pudong IS cool
For the first ten minutes, yes.
But except for the Lujiazui area, there is _nothing_ interesting to see.
Puxi, Huahai Lu, Nanjing Lu, Peaople Square... Now that's Shanghai!
Amazing pictures Jakob, well done and thank you.
Xiexie ni!
Hope I can make some more beautiful ones in Zhouzhuang on the weekend.
There are some blinding heavily 'shopped photos by someone called Children Of Beijing on flickr.
this one and this one in particular
Perhaps this isn't the time or the place to have this discussion, but describing a place like Pudong as having "nothing interesting to see" is just plain ignorant. I wish Shanghai residents (especially those partial to Puxi) would realize that Pudong is the economic and technological center of Shanghai, but I guess that since it doesn't have Western bars and cafes so it's useless to you. By the way, all of the places in Puxi you mentioned are places to shop so I guess that "is Shanghai" to you.
@ pete
yawn ... pudong vs puxi ... what a tedious and irrelevant debate.
you can find links to some fantastic hdr tutorials if you search around on the boards at www.cgarchitect.com .
Nice photos mate - they do look a lot like high quality renderings. Fooled some of the staff here :D