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frostedflakes

frostedflakes

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Came by this on Wikipedia, thought it was pretty cool. Post anything you have that's high res and neat, interesting, beautiful, whatever.

Picture of the Hong Kong night skyline taken from Victoria Peak

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...Kong_Night_Skyline.jpg

EDIT: Crap, thought I was in OT. Can a mod please move?

Moved to OT at OP's request

PC Surgeon
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NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Too bad they over-did the HDR.
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You think this is computer aided? I think its a normal photo a tad over exposed (notice the trails on some boats/ski's).
 
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LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Too bad they over-did the HDR.
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You think this is computer aided? I think its a normal photo a tad over exposed (notice the trails on some boats/ski's).
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Yes, I do think it used HDR. But then again, I am not really too much into photography.
 
Atomic Playboy

Atomic Playboy

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Too bad they over-did the HDR.
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That's not technically HDR. It's a normal photo, they just used a long exposure time. The photo was taken at night, so if they had used a short exposure, the photo would be too dark. By using a longer exposure, details in the mountains behind the city, as well as finer details within the city, emerge, at the expense of bright areas becoming blown out. You can tell it's a long exposure because of the motion trails on the boats and on traffic.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

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That pic is going to be downloaded about 100000x before the mods remove it.

Incidentally, if anyone has any hi res pictures of birds of prey, I'd be very interested in them.
 
yhelothar

yhelothar

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Originally posted by: frostedflakes
The image description states HDR was used. Here's the image w/out HDR.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ht_Skyline_non-HDR.jpg

And thanks PC Surgeon for moving this.
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looks like there was some kind of mistake, since this one looks like the one that was heavily edited(i still wouldn't call it HDR, more like USM high radii and adding contrast).
you can see the halos around the buildings and trees on the bottom right.

the original, on the other hand, looks like an out of the camera low contrast pic, especially with all the haze in the air.
 
yhelothar

yhelothar

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Originally posted by: LikeLinus
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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Too bad they over-did the HDR.
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what HDR? you mean the lack of HDR?
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No, I think he means you shouldn't post in photography threads if you're unable to tell that is processed.
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and what makes you think he, or you are the one that can tell?

Do you even know what HDR is?
You don't use HDR on a low contrast image.. there's no need because the range is small to begin with.
 
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