HDR

I fucking love HDR. You can pretty much throw away any kind of realism when you do this post production technique. It can make almost any natural subject look unrealistic and have people guessing for quite a while, mixed with other post production techniques it can get quie a few people scratching their heads. I think the first ever HDR shot I took was of the tate when I got my first DSLR. I know some of these photos are re-posts but it’s purely for my IMP. A comment from my favourite HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff (http://stuckincustoms.com/) made me want to carry on playing around with it.

Trey’s work is awesome. Some of his images can catch you off guard. What you need to remember is that HDR images aren’t overly airbrushed or manipulated. It’s just taking a photo of the same subject at different exposures and squashing them together. It’s the composition of the image, the amount of exposures you take and the exposure range and how you process them that gives you the impact you want.

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