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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 !!!!

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.

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

thank you!

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

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

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?

great graffiti pics! thanks for this

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.

That's awesome, killer article.

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.

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.

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.

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

""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!

Good finds! There are loads more here

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

That last picture belongs in a museum, not on the outside of a museums walls!
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Amazing talent! Unfortunately this kind of work doesn't get much respect. It's understandable, since most of it is on private property.

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.

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.

nice, what camera do you use?

Some of these are absolutely awful.

graffiti is for idiots with no job.

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;)

Wow, very cool pictures!

salute!

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.

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

can we get wallpaper versions? :)

portland!

Truly amazing. There are a bunch more here.

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

I REALLY LOVE THE PICS

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

Wow,
really amazing pictures.

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

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

nice shot
cool gravity :D

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

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

Skilled people out there. Both photographers and Graffiti Artists.

/Simon

Wonderful! Great work dude! Loved it.

Beautiful