Fake HDR with this tutorial
HDR is a way of creating cool photographs using a somewhat complicated method of combining overexposed and underexposed RAW images into one final saturated painterly image. The effect produces something similar to a photo realistic painting, and is pretty cool. If you don’t have the capability with your digital camera or want to play around with an existing image here is a fun tutorial that lays out a few tricks you can deploy in Photoshop to achieve a similar effect.
Here is the results of my attempt…it came out pretty good, one thing not mentioned in the tutorial i learned, is you might need to switch the direction of your gradient in the last step.
original (burnt out truck i photographed):
modified:
How to fake HDR: tutorial
Check out some real HRD pictures: Flickr HDR Gallery
