I was catching up on dETROITfUNK [1] when I came across a new digital manipulation method [2] called HDR (High Dynamic Range) [3]. The resulting images [4] have this haunting clarity and otherworldliness to them.
The method is simple enough—take several photographs of the same scene at different exposure levels (from underexposed to overexposed) and then average the results. Sure, in traditional photography one could always burn the underexposed portions and dodge the overexposed portions of a negative to even out the luminance of the image but this is the first I've seen it applied easily to digital photographs.
This is something I'll have to play around with.
[1] http://www.detroitfunk.com/
[2] http://www.detroitfunk.com/2006/06/more_hdr.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Old_saint_pauls_2.jpg
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