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From Blog Critics.org: “HDR: An Introduction To High Dynamic Range Photography is an O’Reilly Short Cuts e-book written by Jack Howard. Howard is the Associate Online Editor of PopPhoto.com and PopularPhotography and Imaging. The Short Cuts series is a no nonsense offering that brings to you clear, concise training on …

Hyperfocal Design’s HDRI Environment Maps allow you to light your scene with complete accuracy and photo realism – and in great speed. Reflections, shadows and color perfectly match the background HDR image, which features the highest resolution available in full spherical format @ 10,000×5,000 pixels.

Hyperfocal Night Skies is a “mini collection” available on DVD or as individual images. It contains 14 night and twilight images, including two bonus HDR moon images. The images in Night Skies measure 10,000X2,500 pixels in TIF and JPG format.

HDRI Architectural Visualization Tutorial In this tutorial by Paco Morales, we will illuminate an exterior architectural scene with help from V-Ray and a HDR image (High Dynamic Range Image, or HDRI for short) from Hyperfocal Design. Follow the Vray HDRI Tutorial, here.

10 new HDRI Skies have just been added to the store, making the total number of HDRI Skies available now 35. Included in the latest 10 HDRIs are 3 clear (cloudless) computer generated skies available in 9500 pixel and 4500 pixel sizes. Browse the complete collection and download the updated …

Uwe Steinmueller from Digital Outback Photo has written up a report on workflow in Photomatix, including a description of what HDRI is, how it’s captured and how to use Photomatix for your HDR photos.

Many people think that HDRI photography is not useful for scenes with objects in motion. Well, scenes with objects in motion are a difficult topic. However, HDR techniques may be used in such scenes as well! This tutorial demonstrates how to master these things.

Super Legend, Sean O’Malley updated Cube2Cross to support RLE-compressed HDR images. Thanks Sean!

14 new HDRI Skies have been added to the Hyperfocal Design store, bringing the total to 26. A new pdf is available that catalogues the entire range of images and can be found in the samples section of the store. Hyperfocal’s HDRI Skies are unique, in that they feature the highest resolution …