How do you take a picture like this :
 

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/...GriddyMini.jpg

Any tips on how to take a picture like that?

Cheers

Photoshop

Point camera. Press button.

Yessir, normal pic that was prettied up with Ps :)

looks like HDR photography to me

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tut...amic-range.htm

its pretty easy to do, and the results can be really interesting

here's one of mine :
http://maraccasmein.deviantart.com/a...lift-118751972

you'll notice that HDR photos looks like it was a painting (unnatural lighting)

It's an overprocessed HDR image. Correctly done HDR isn't supposed to look like an oversaturated, blurry oil painting, but most people get carried away with the adjustment knobs for some reason. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/laugh1.gif

Buy new Sony Alpha 500-series dslr and you can take pictures like that by press of a button. [yes]

Find an ugly car and take a picture of it. Bingo, bango.

Thats a PHOTO? ?http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo.../confused1.gif

lol, yeah. try to read the process of making HDR pictures you'll see how simple it is to make one [yes]

you use photoshop, and badly i might add as it looks quite simply disgusting

OMG! That's freaking awesome! I've seen a LOT of cool stuff on interfacelift when looking for wallpapers... but that's wicked.

I have a question about this, how do people end up with these uber HDR images. The only time I use HDR is when I think there is more range in the image than is being shown. Over exposure in some areas something like that. A good example is a brook under the shade of some trees but areas where the light comes in are over exposed. I used HDR and I ended with an image which covers all the range of light but still looks like what I saw. What exactly is being done to make these images look so 'unreal'?

thats really really awesome.

thanks a lot for the nice comments [thumbup]

about the over processed HDR images, although making HDR images are relatively easy, the results can vary very wildly, and it really depends on how you make it.

the concept in a nutshell is, you take 3 (3 is the recommended least number of photos to be used) pictures of the exact same thing,in the exact same position but with different exposure values, and combine them..

so lets say you see a nice scenery, you take a picture that is -2.0 (under exposed), 0.0 (normal exposure), and +2.0 (over exposed), you can use photoshop or other third party apps that specialize in combining images (i recommend trying out Photomatix) so that you end up with a picture that has all the values of 2.0, 0.0 and +2.0.

you can also 'cheat' on making HDR photos (this works best for moving subjects, like the one i showed earlier), just make sure you have a picture in RAW format, use a photo editing tool that lets you adjust the exposure of the photo and save it as different files. use any of the above mentioned programs to combine them and voila! you have an HDR image

check these out to see some mind boggling examples :

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...-hdr-pictures/

I understand the basic concept of what HDR is it's the next stage where you do what this guys has shown you can do quite easily without something like Photomatix that I'm trying to understand.

http://www.hookedonlight.com/2009/08...hdr-image.html

It's seems these images don't really have anything to do with HDR.

Bravo!
Dude, I promise I am not making fun of you.

omg i was worried there for a minute, but since you promised.. [rolleyes] http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/wink1.gif