If you're looking to add that wow factor to your desktop and you're finding that regular wallpapers just aren't cutting it, it's time to check out HDR wallpaper. If you've never seen any images before, you will be amazed how interesting and eye-catching they are.
HDR (high dynamic range) imaging has really grown in popularity over the last few years, with discussion groups and websites devoted to techniques and critiquing the results. This process, when applied carefully and correctly, results in incredibly vivid, often hyper-realistic images with amazing detail from shadows to highlights, and everywhere in between. And because HDR images are so striking and visually rich they make stunning desktop wallpapers for your computer.
The human eye is capable of taking in a vastly wider range of color and light information than can be captured by a digital camera. The intention of HDR imaging is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows. In essence, HDR imaging attempts to recreate the ambiance of a scene and produce images closer to what the human eye can see.
HDR images are created by taking multiple photos of the same scene with a range of different exposures (normally one properly exposed, one underexposed by one stop, and one overexposed by one stop) and then merging them into a single image using image processing software, such as Photomatix or Photoshop, and tone-mapping.
The result is an image with more dynamic range - in other words, the brights are brighter, the darks darker, and there's much more variance in between. And depending on your taste - and your artistic ability - the image can be processed to look photo-realistic, surreal or somewhere in between.
Check out a few amazing HDR images I found around the Web. All the images are clickable and lead to the photographers' pages.
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