40 Really Stunning HDR Car Photos, Resources And Tutorials

Dainis Graveris — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:13:52 +0000

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range or HDRI – High Dynamic Range Imaging. This method was developed to produce a high dynamic range image from several different photographs ( usually three – with high exposure, low exposure and standard exposure) and usually merging them in Adobe Photoshop or any other image processing software for tone-mapping. HDR is becoming more and more popular with its stunning magical and surreal effects.

I chose car HDR photos because cars are very detailed naturally, so adding HDR effect gives amazing results – just check out this collection. However I know it’s not so complete, just small chunk of inspiration, click on the images to lead You to the pages from which they’ve been originally taken. 31 Stunning HDR Car Photographs Further reading

If You are more interested in HDR photos and how to create this kind of effect, I found more great resource, portfolio and tutorials. See the great detail and anime effects of images below. HDR don’t stop to amaze.

Dave Hill Photos

Dave Hill is great photographer especially specialized in HDR photo creation. Check out his portfolio works – these are really amazing!

35 Fantastic HDR Pictures

Even more 35 amazing HDR photographs and many resources for further reading from smashingmagazine.

20 Beautiful HDR Pictures

One more great collection from abduzeedo website. 5 Tutorials To Help You Create HDR Effect

Tutorial – HDR from 1 JPG

Learn how to create fake HDR effect from a single image.

HDR Tutorial: How to create ‘High Dynamic Range’ images using Photomatix

Possibly one of the best HDR creation guides, showing step by step how to get this amazing effect, very detailed.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorial – HDR – High Dynamic Range

One more tutorial showing very detailed how to create HDR effect from a single image and getting maximal fake HDR effect possible.

HDR Tutorial – New and Improved for 2008!

Very good tutorial showing whole creation process – helping You to choose best camera for this work, setting exposures and merging them through Photomatix or Photoshop.

Merging HDR in Photoshop CS3 Tutorial

This tutorial will explain one of the hottest new trends in Photography. HDR! Learn how to shoot, merge and tone-map photos to extend the dynamic range and produce those painted looking results with Photoshop CS3.

30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection

Dainis Graveris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:01:30 +0000

Huh, I know there are maybe even too many articles about places, where to search for photos and images, but those articles were usually very old, many sites do not work anymore and that kind of stuff. So my goal was to create ultimate collection with the best places where to search for and get nice quality images. I think every site of this list is worth checking out, although in most cases with sxc.hu site alone is enough.

1. Sxc.hu

The leading free stock photo site. If You don’t know about this site and call Yourself a designer, I’ll feel ashamed – MUST KNOW site offering an impressive collection of many high-quality photos taken by amateur photographers from around the world. There are more than 380.000 quality stock photos. If You are searching for something this is the first place where to look, totally my favorite one.

2. EveryStockPhoto

EveryStockPhoto site is becoming more and more popular, now there are 4,4 million free photos!

3. MorgueFile

One more site worth looking for. “This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits.” – Quote from their homepage.

4. Flickr

Everybody know about this site with their main purpose as photo management and sharing application. Great place for inspiration and searching for good photographs, but don’t forget to check author’s license, before using them.

5. Deviantart

Very popular community and also very good photos sometimes can be found there, but yes, don’t forget about license and asking authors first for their permission.

6. Kavewall

All images are separated in 18 different categories with really handy navigation.

7. StockVault

More than 11,000 stock photos are available for now.

8. **Image*After**

Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial and currently there are more than 20,000 free textures and images available.