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                           High Dynamic Range Imaging
                                        
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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