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Final result shown on top is Achieved from the small images on the left.. and some image manipulation in photoshop
Almost surreal looking.. Nothing that naked human eye can capture ..
Have you ever seen a landscape or cityscape that looked hyper-realistic, or even fantastical – a shot with amazing detail in the shadows, midtones, and highlights all at the same time?
It may have been perfect shooting conditions in the field, with a graduated neutral density filter or some other filter stacking combo, or maybe it was painstakingly crafted in Photoshop with tons of dodging and burning and layer masking.
Or it may have been a High-Dynamic Range Image (HDR), such as the lead image for this story. Often explained as “seeing more like the human eye,” HDR imaging combines several shots of a given scene to overcome the exposure range limitations of traditional single-shot photography – and the final results have much more detail from shadows to highlights, and everywhere in between.
http://www.popphoto.com/howto/3038/how-to-create-high-dynamic-range-images.html