Great shot. I love the contrast, the way the vibrancy of the color is revealed under the plainness and drabness of the ice. The way the yellow is vibrant but shows its wear and tear from existence on the street. The few ice peices that still lay on the paint. Beautiful Shot!

Like it.

I really never would have thought that this was a HDR shot.

I always love the yellow lines on tarmac with great detail and high contrast and you never fail to deliver ;)

I suppose the snow is the only area where I can nearly see the effects of HDR although, if you said you'd lied and its not HDR I'd beleive you.

Great contrast of the colours. Really like the way you are led into the shot from the bottom left where there is no ice.

this is a pretty intense shot. the yellow looks so vibrant in contrast to the ice. it's beautiful really.

Love it Dave

Capture of the instant when ice becomes water before desappearing, revealing tire sprints which remain. More i look at this shot, more the ice is melting. Soon there will be nothing left for the others.

Nice use of HDR

Whoa - I like this photo! The purpleish tone on the snow helps liven things a little I think. I love the different textures from wheel/foot prints in the photo.

Nice one mate!

You know your HDR's, David!

Nice shot. I love the contrast in the in the ice. It looks perfectly crunchy. It's very difficult to get snow and ice to look good on a bright day without underexposing everything around it. Thus a perfect use of HDR, I would say.

Great contraste and geometric game between the yellow lines with the tire marks, the dark grey from the tarmac and the white from the ice.

But to be honest, the shoe mark in the left side makes this photo for me because it brakes the balance of the composition. :-)

wow.. hdr seems to be lovely day by day - shot after shot..
those tyre marks in snow/ice seem to be very striking n that yellow - tht deserves one more wow !!

Fab! How do you get realistic HDR's? I've only ever produced pathetic efforts that look like cheesy paintings!

woah! so cool. This is def my fav of your road shots.

I really like shots like these. This would be one of those "nothing" shots to many people but the composition is perfectly done here with a mix of textures and colors. good work.

Pic of the day! Love it.

amazing as always. I've experimented a bit with creating HDR images but am yet to come anywhere near your level.

Another great HDR image: highly saturated yellows without blowing up the whites.

I think that the future of HDR is that there will be digital cameras that will incorporate the hdr feature as part of their functionality. For example, you press the shutter button and automatically (it would be great if the user can enable/disable this function) the camera takes several shots of the same image or, even better, takes a single shot that -due to a not known technoloy yet- gets the most dynamic range from the scene. Of course, it will also affect the file formats. In a world where technology runs too fast, the actual HDR processing performed "by hand" is a novelty, but it's also becoming obsolete very quick.

Regards

I could tell it was an HDR right away, but I like it.

I love the diagonal line cutting through the horizontals. Wonderful photo!

This shot say's I can't wait for the winters to get over.

OK, I'm very curious what you're doing on these HRD shots generated from a single RAW file. Are you actually creating HDR files and then doing the Tone Mapping thing to reduce to a screenable shot, or are you doing the H&S Combine thing? Prompted primarily by the spectacular results you're posting, I've started screwing around with Photomatrix. Based both on my anectodal results ,and their documentation, it seems that using a variably exposed single RAW file works pretty well for the "Combine" operations, but not for generating an HDR and then Tone Mapping.

Just curious...

Great shot. I like how the yellow is "fighting" with all the greytones.Excellent sharpness.

great! i love that yellow tone. :)

Great frame work. Nice one

yellow equals slush

I would say that the HDR treatment is that saves this picture from being just a simple abstract.

I knew there was something up with this image, because I know if I'd taken it I'd have ended up with something dark, washed out and generally 100 times worse than this (if I was lucky!). Solin (above) hit the nail on the head I think, when he mentioned the vibrant yellows without the highlights of the ice being blown out. Whatever, it's a great shot with so much crisp detail, texture and, of course, that vibrant yellow. It's good that that's the only colour in the shot, too. It's horrible weather here this morning, but I'd still prefer to be outside taking pictures of the gutter than sitting in this office! Take it easy :-)

This is my favourite use for HDR, not to produce some really dramatic sky or something in an image but to increase the contrast and tonal range beyond what is possible with a normal image. When done like this you can hardly tell its HDR, you only realise how much the tonal range is expanded if you think how dark the tarmac would be if you exposed for the snow. Very nice image.

what should i say ... i really don't like this shot because there is too much saturation and too much contrast in it. maybe it's just this. actually i just like your first two HDR shots most! these are my favorites. the rest of your HDR shots are a bit too heavy for my opinion.

I'm in agreement with sushi in every single detail...EXCEPT the conclusion.

I find most of your HDR shots fascinating and attractive *because* of their heavy contrast and saturation. And talk about consistent and unique style...they have a distinctive personality that I'd recognize anywhere.

I'm mesmerized by their hyper-reality. They're controversial, confrontational, and almost hurt my eyes. But they make for really striking, totally memorable, and entirely satisfying images.

This is a really striking image. I just happened upon your site by accident, and have only seen two of your photos at this point, but I'm now officially a fan.

great texture - you totally want to reach out and brush more of the ice away

Better use of HDR than others. This keeps a more normal/natural look to it.

Great contrast. Love the yellow lines .)

Thanks everyone.

Solin: yep, it may be the case that future camera's include a similar feature.

Ben: I'm generating the HDR file then doing the tone mapping rather than the H&S thing, but form what you've said I probably should read their manual ;-)

isn't generating multiple exposures from a single RAW file not actually HDR? isn't it more like Medium Dynamic Range as all you have to work with is the original range of the RAW shot which is a range of about 5 stops right? where as if you bracket your shots a few stops apart you can end up with a range of 8 or more stops?

in fact, the folks at photomatix explain: http://www.hdrsoft.com/resources/dri.html#raw

great result though, lovely colours.

I like your shots of the yellow road markings. They have inspired me on occasion to look down.

Great textures & fantastic contrats between the yellow and the dirty ice.

traces in the snow... nice one ;)

I really wish I had your eye for photos