High Dynamic Range Photography

High Dynamic Range.. or HDR photographs can create amazing and stunning picture which blur the senses and make reality and illusion become one. These photographs require a set of techniques that allow for a far greater dynamic range of exposure than normal digital imaging techniques. This allows for us to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in sense from real life, ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows.
This effect for an HDR photograph can be accomplished by taking the same photo but at slightly different f-stops and merging them together.
I think this technique can enhance a photo or scenery that you might not have seen as stunning or beautiful before hand and as said before give it that illusion of whether what you're looking at is real or not.


Here are just some HDR photographs that i found caught my eyes and had me looking at it all for awhile.

Night Time Photography

As I've been thinking of doing some night time photography, I thought having a look at some photographs that had been taken at night would help me think about how i would like my photographs to look. I think that having them all the same temperature will really help with that and link my narrative photographs together.

I think that this photograph has a similar temperature as to what I'm thinking about doing for my own photographs.

I really want to set my photographs around a park area near where I live, as most parks do at night time, it has this really creepy feeling to it, especially the playground. But there are also some trees that look very similar to these ones which I plan on including and would like to try and get that same lighting effect on it.

Something I also really love about night time photography is how the street lights end up looking, they illuminate so much and yet there is still able to be a dark feeling in the photograph that keeps a mysterious feeling to it. I think the temperature of this photograph is a little warmer than what I think I want my photographs to end up being. but it shows a good example of street lights.

Inspiration for ideas

I wanted to have a look at some more photographers so i could come up with some ideas for a narrative, and see what else has been done, either in a series or just singular photographs.
I started looking at some photos by Gregory Crewdson, and i think his dark mysterious photographs probably have the same feel to them as what I am going for.

                     

                      

                     

Im really interested in doing something with a bit of mystery to it all, and preferably something at night time. I like the idea of people being lost or look as though they're in search of something, but not really sure what they're looking for.