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In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.

To the untrained eye, most HDR images are bad, but to an avid HDR enthusiast the selection below are great, bad HDR comes with full of over saturation, blatant halo’s, blown channels, and just bad imagery.

Below are a few examples of absolute spot on HDR images from around the world, and all from different photographers. You won’t find any halo’s, ghosting, blown channels, or bad whites in these images! Every image has excellence in processing and composition.

Note: Be sure to click the images to see some more incredible work from these guys.

On Flickr you can find a few groups who specialize in black and white photos with some parts in color

• Cutouts
• Colorisation
• Spot Colored and Masked
• Black and White with a Touch of Color
• Almost Black and White
• Black  + White + Color
• Black and White and Color

Below are a few examples

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Tilt Shift Photography or Miniature Faking is interesting because it makes the normal world look like is it actually a miniature model.

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

I think this one actually is a model =)

Check out the original picture here

Tilt Shift Photography Related Tutorials

• Tilt Shift Photography Tutorial and Showcase
• Tilt-Shift Photography Related Photoshop Tutorial
• Photoshop Tilt-Shift Tutorial
• How-To Create Fake Tilt-Shift Miniature in Photoshop CS
• Fake Model Photography
• Tilt-Shift Photo Tutorial
• Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes

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Forced perspective is cool, because it easy to do, just takes some imagination.

Pictures taken in different rotation angle.

Pictures taken to

These pictures are taken to make it look as if something is happening but actually isnt.

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Aperture is very strange to me, some times some things just click and I understand why and how… but with aperture, I havent found any good information that explains why things happen differently using different settings, sure, I know what the result is going to be, but WHY? I have searched everywhere on the internet, read a few books, not only on photography, but on optics, raytracing, maths…

I will explain what the numbers are and what they do, I will show some images I took to show the difference, and I will try and explain the physics behind it. I am not sure how technical this will be, because I dont know as I am writing this, so lets get started…

Aperture size from wide to narrow, the bigger the hole the more light gets in which means we can keep the shutter open less time.

Actual aperture opening on a lens

Focus on the closest object; HAWX, Aperture at the widest, f/3.5, shutter time, 0.2sec

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Focus on the closest object; HAWX, Aperture at the narrowest, f/22, shutter speed, 5sec

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Focus on the farthest object; Vegas, Aperture at the widest, f/3.5, shutter speed, 0.2sec

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Focus on the farthest object; Vegas, Aperture at the narrowest, f/22, shutter speed, 8sec

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