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Superb HDR Pics of Graffiti

March 19, 2008

Fact: HDR pictures are totally cool. HDR makes colors pop-out, they appear really vivid and shiny. And what kinda art uses lots of vivid and shiny colors? That's right, grafitti! And the combination of these two will blow your mind!

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57 Comments

jenish mebi10/01/2009

i love hole hdri images

Anonymous10/15/2008

That "Stoned" thing is from Sudbury, where I live. Blew my mind when I saw it, ahaha

Recruitment Process Outsourcing06/27/2008

That girl with the jump rope is a really cool one.

Dawning of the age05/07/2008

Some of these I've seen before this-not touted as HDR. So I'm inclined to believe they were swiped and photoshopped. I love street art and yes have taken to the camera and preserved some of the best. But please people, take your own pictures! And then take the credit. If not, let those who did shine.

Anonymous03/31/2008

dont care if its not real... this is so cool!
awesome

Sindre03/26/2008

Thanks for adding my photo to this. I was really blown away when people started to add it as a favourite and I got over a thousand views.

When I tracked it to this site, I was sort of embarassed because the photo is really an experiment that I did on the fly!

( http://flickr.com/photos/bananer/1923052842/ )

I was waiting for someone downtown in Stavanger, Norway in this skating park. The thing to remember is that this was my first attempt at HDR-photographing, and the camera was handheld.

Thumbs up for most of these photos though, and I agree that grafitti with a political message is far better than just plain ol' tagging.

Jrad03/25/2008

Great shots, I just started to look into the new Nikon D300 (have d200 now) which handles HDR great, so I read. Check out this 10-photo montage I did in PS of a 80 foot single canvas located in SF, http://www.210studios.com/images/XEC_30x3_web_logo.jpg
Good arts makes people feel something, good bad or otherwise, you have done that! ;-} jradimages.com

Art of graffiti03/25/2008

yeah nice

i'll make some HDR shots of my graffiti artwork soon into my website !
Thks for sharing.

And for the dumb anonymous saying : "graffiti is for idiots with no job"
i do graffiti for 11 years now and i got a pretty nice job, so update your brain !!!!

A genuine responsible citizen03/25/2008

Really and honestly, I'm sick of this whole 'graffiti is art' bullshit. You can spray what the fuck you want on your own walls and those who give you permission, but anything else is just vandalism. Unfortunately that means 99.9% of your so-called 'art' is just arrogant disaffected arseholes who think they can piss everyone else off with a public display of their own tawdry angst. Those that vandalise public spaces in the name of their 'art', even if they try to justify themselves (ie make pathetic excuses) with such claims as they are just fences along a railway line etc, doesn't just affect the property owner (it's their property, why should they have to pay out to restore it to the way they wanted it before some scummy glue-huffing tossers spray-wank all over it), but it costs everyone else (ie taxpayers, not that I'd expect spraycan weilding ass-jockeys to ever be in a position to understand this bit other than who's paying for their stay in prison) - each piece of graffiti vandalism witnessed by a citizen takes a chunk out of our civic karma and goodwill, and demonstrably contributes to the reduction in quality of life of all those around, whether they are part of it or not.

And if it is art, which it's not, well, where is the art? Where does graffiti hold a mirror up to life, so that the observer may reflect on the truth in nature etc.? Every piece of spray-painted or sharpied vandalism I've ever seen has failed this test. There are some technically talented individuals in this field who's work I have appreciated, and there are others who seek to subvert the form through experimental techniques, but really? In real life? If I wanted to see some generic mass-marketed band's logo poorly reproduced in spraypaint . . . well, actually, I don't, and believe it or not neither does anyone else. And taggers? Please, just kill yourselves. Now, political graffiti, something with a message, is a different story, so don't try to come back at me with all your badly thought out 'amendment' bullshit.

Davic03/25/2008

thank you for include a pic of my flickr, mine its from a abandoned Prison in Madrid

thank you!

Cozmo03/23/2008

Those are so intense a lot of them look fake. Very cool though.

Okinawa03/23/2008

Nice HDR stuff, though I don't like halos in HDR work.

seldon03/23/2008

Some really great work here, love the train!

I can't understand why so many people get kicked on by flaming comments.
If you don't like it thats ok, but whats the matter with writing stupid flame comments?

derek Santa Ana03/22/2008

great graffiti pics! thanks for this

Anonymous03/21/2008

HDR = a way of bringing anything into a shot that is normally void of content.

Interesting graffiti though.

Note: Please spell your topic title correctly.

Jake03/21/2008

That's awesome, killer article.

TT LoanShark03/21/2008

Signs you live in a cr*ppy neighbourhood: Graffiti and vandalised telephone kiosks and bus stops. If thinking of buying a home there, move on.

Anonymous03/20/2008

hahaha, fully 1/3 of these "look so crisp" because theyre not real. 1/3 of them are computer generated. these arent HDR, its just a lens filter.

Bad article is bad.

oliver03/20/2008

Couldn't these people at least take photos of good graffiti? Most of these look like they were done by people with absolutely no talent.

Anonymous03/20/2008

curves and saturation...curves and saturation...curves and saturation...

Anonymous03/20/2008

""graffiti is for idiots with no job""

I like the way u can say that and are 2 afraid to leave ur name! Pu**y! i have been painting 4 5 years and have a job which is probably better paid than urs lol.
every1 watch out for small minded idiots!

great photos!

Graffiti Pictures03/20/2008

Good finds! There are loads more here

subcorpus03/20/2008

i like the second picture ...
really nice ...
also this blog is well done ...

Jasper03/20/2008

Some people really need to learn when it's appropriate to process with HDR. There might be 4 photos in that list that have actually benefitted from HDR; the rest just look blurred or over-saturated.

Derek Prospero03/20/2008

Why do so many people suck at HDR imagery? Most of them look so blurry. Buy a real tripod people.

Zany03/20/2008

Great post ... the train picture is my fav :)

Some HDR wallpapers can be found on Wallpapers-room.com

fun-da-mental03/20/2008

Excellent idea to make HDR's out of graffiti. Aloha!

Anonymous03/20/2008

HDR uses multiple exposures to capture a deeper range of colours in different lighting conditions within the same composition.

This is why it is used to caputure very vivid skies in conjunction with detailed, shadowed foreground, for example. Otherwise, the sky is often overexposed or the foreground underexposed.

However, many of these photographs really don't need (or even use) HDR. When you have a untextured, evenly-lit wall and nothing else, there is really no use for HDR (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/donny_boy/2085368845/ for example). These photos have simply had the saturation cranked up.

On the other hand, some of the photos above (http://www.flickr.com/photos/swakt1/2319880809/ for example), use HDR very well to get deep colour in both the foreground and sky.

francoism03/20/2008

I'm well impressed. I never even thought about HDR for non-landscape photography. Excellent idea. Thanks for the post.

Anonymous03/20/2008

the HDR effects are cool.

too bad most of the grafitti motives are more like vandalism than art. really. i have seen way more beautiful grafitti than this.

Caleb03/20/2008

That last picture belongs in a museum, not on the outside of a museums walls!
www.milesmodernart.com

Anonymous03/20/2008

Amazing talent! Unfortunately this kind of work doesn't get much respect. It's understandable, since most of it is on private property.

TheIronGiant03/20/2008

The pictures look great. I second the first commenter, who said that these pictures need locations. I'd love to know, for instance, where that underground staircase was hidden, and why it received so little light.

Anonymous03/20/2008

Please put the locations these were shot at under each so we can see the influence of local events on the output on the wall. For example different issues and events influence eastern european graffiti differently then east Los Angeles.

dsgm03/20/2008

nice, what camera do you use?

Mark03/20/2008

Some of these are absolutely awful.

Anonymous03/20/2008

graffiti is for idiots with no job.

thomas e03/20/2008

Some of these bits of graffiti are really good. Better than you'd get in the tate modern. Just a pity they end up being whitewashed... should be a way to keep the best alive;)

Michi03/20/2008

Wow, very cool pictures!

ikalfanis03/20/2008

salute!

Anonymous03/20/2008

Actually, HDR does not make colors more vivid/saturated. That's just a feature of the particular tool you are using. Most other HDR tools will *not* increase saturation of colors.

khaiDesigns03/20/2008

the first thing i need to spare time is doing grafitti, then to hdr. great gallery when two of the design medium combine together.

Anonymous03/20/2008

can we get wallpaper versions? :)

Anonymous03/20/2008

portland!

Anonymous03/20/2008

Truly amazing. There are a bunch more here.

player203/19/2008

what i see in pics' that, a good blow job of art.donT give up NICEwork

Nascar03/19/2008

I REALLY LOVE THE PICS

Lamin Barrow03/19/2008

WOW that's amazing man. Thanks for the post.

Wolfgang03/19/2008

Wow,
really amazing pictures.

Anthony03/19/2008

Wow, those are great. I love the way that the some of the colors stick out so much. And the graffiti itself is awesome!!

Anonymous03/19/2008

...and we didn't even have to pay for them! -.-

Dy03/19/2008

nice shot
cool gravity :D

Xavier03/19/2008

Really great pictures. Let's make HDR by ourselves!

Markus03/19/2008

Grafitti looks over colourized + HDR.. 2 Words " FREAKY AWESOME" :D

Simon03/19/2008

Skilled people out there. Both photographers and Graffiti Artists.

/Simon

Keshav Khera03/19/2008

Wonderful! Great work dude! Loved it.

arnaud03/19/2008

Beautiful

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