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Dramatic and mesmerizing - ALMOST the entire island of Manhattan - A perfect moment in time
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The Sky / The Earth, 11mm lens
HDR Madison at 76th
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NYC, shooting through a window
This is "real" in the sense that it is a picture of Manhattan. However, it is done with a technique called HDRI or high dynamic range imaging. It is tagged as being in the Flickr HDR pool (Flickr: The HDR Pool) if you look down on the right.
Notice how the backlit sunflower is bright even though the bright sky behind it is not over exposed? This is because it is actually several exposures at different f-stops blended together to achieve a better range of lighting.
Flickr: The HDR Pool the Flickr HDRI pool... and you can see how the pictures can range from very subtle blending to surrealistic. It is not hard to do even by hand and there are actions for it in Photoshop. Still this is a very well done example.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
HDR Photos - New York City Island
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