Daily Photo

This is not a painting or (much of) a Photoshop job, but a high dynamic range photo. This is to get all the dynamic range in a scene which you couldn’t capture in a single photo, but could in multiple exposures of the same scene with different settings. Since Photoshop Creative Suite 2 includes a “Merge to HDR” feature that does most of the grunt work for you, these have become increasingly popular.

So you get scenes like the above. That’s a photo from a hotel roof in Las Vegas of the New York New York Hotel. It looks like the remains of the pitiful little Manhattan Island preserved by the Martians hundreds of years after their invasion.

This is a daylight shot. The photographer has a shot of the same scene at dusk and mostly HDR shots on his Flickr.

Photo: “Post Apocalyptic New York” by Shayan (USA). Taken on 23 April 2007. CC by 2.0.