In an earlier post I talked about the construction of the huge Gundam statue in Odaiba, Tokyo.
John Burgreen of Okinawa HDR was up in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago and managed to get this fantastic image of the behemoth.
Gundam Statue Odaiba Tokyo in HDR by John Burgreen
What is HDR?
HDR stands for high dynamic range. The photographer takes multiple shots of the same subject varying the exposure so that some shots accurately expose the shadows while other shots accurately expose the highlights. Combine all the photographs in Photoshop and you produce a image which doesn’t lose detail in areas that would normally be too dark or too bright. Read more at the Wikipedia page here.
HDR is an exciting development in digital photography. Some people love it, some people hate it. In my opinion, it is a technique that is difficult to do well, and can’t remedy an otherwise poor photograph. But, get it right and the images produced can be stunning. John’s Gundam photo is an example of HDR done well.
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Nice HDR, but it’s pretty subtle on the HDR scale 🙂 I’m jealous though… while I’m certainly not a gundam fan or anything, I’d love to get the chance to photograph something so surreal. God bless Japan for having the stones to go and build something like that, and to do it lifesize haha
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Ugh…HDR. So much misuse and abuse. I’m not even going to rant because you can just type HDR in flickr and find tons of horrible examples.