Here's the first topic for the "Illumina Journal": how one of the latest trends in photography renews and recycles itself: The High Dynamic Range Imaging.
The technique stems from the basic need to represent the entire dynamic range of a scene using conventional instruments. By now I am not going to dive into technical details (I'm preparing a scientific article), you just should know that the use of HDR allows you to expose all areas of the frame the most correctly and balanced way. Which is not actually possible using common cameras only, expecially when you are facing strong light contrast scenes.

Taking advantage of Hdri photography is nowadays trend, art, fashion and, at the same time, it becomes abused by many people.
The great mass can litteraly mortify the true meaning of this form of photography, with an excessive use, ending with disappointing results.

Fortunately, a small group of people, alone, manages to propose works capable to return the proper credit to high dynamic range photography. Once established what they really need, their final product reveals high sensitivity of interpretation, reached through a process of logical thinking.

The following sequences belong to a handful of artists who were able to give a new impetus to what was already innovative itself, merging HDR technique in conjuction with time-lapse approach, compressing the dynamic range of the scene in order to match the narrow gamma of your screens and, at the same time, compressing the time it took them to shoot. Dazzlingly condensing what their eyes saw and what their mind interpreted.