I love this photograph. Mine is cropped at the top, a bit less sky, to accommodate the proper aspect ratio for 1920x1080.

It's a street in Bergen, Norway. The photographer did a superb job- realistic but with a dream-like quality, perfectly balanced lighting, lovely composition.

I doubt I'll ever change this wallpaper.

You can get it here, in many different resolutions: https://www.pxfuel.com/en/desktop-wallpaper-ajbkr

Looks like they used high dynamic range. I believe it is multiple of the same photo at different exposures that allows you to go beyond what the camera can do in a single photo.

Or modern cameras can just do it, I haven't updated my camera since my Nikon D90.

Yes, it has to be something along those lines. The image borders on perfection.

It's a wonderful image. And, for me, a timely post! I have a new laptop and was wondering which sites I could trust to find wallpaper.

That's really cool, para.

Cool. It’s kind of surreal. At first it seemed like an ai generated image.

Very artistic.

Very nice! Yes, it does look like HDR was used.

It's a beauty and as you said, a great composition with center of interest and secondary center of interest. The eye is drawn everywhere and not out of the photo.

I've always wanted to visit Bergen. My only trip to Norway was a flight connection through Oslo.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Cool. It’s kind of surreal. At first it seemed like an ai generated image.

Very artistic.

That is the HDR process. It allows the shadow areas to be lighter than the highlight areas. The result being that you can see details in the shadows AND in the highlights. Often, when a photo is dark enough to see a lot of detail in the highlights, the shadows are too dark to see much detail, and visa versa. In this photo, the streetlight would be blown out if you exposed for the shadows, and the shadows would be black if you exposed for the streetlight. The computer blends different exposures across the image.

The effect can be overdone, and then it looks cartoonish. Some scenes - those with really bright AND really dark areas can be overdone, and it really looks weird. This photo shows some of that, and it is what gives that otherworldly look. Our brains know that there is something in the photo that is not natural, but you can't quite put your finger on what it is.

The multi-colored cobblestones tie it all together for me. I don't think it would be nearly as interesting with anything else in that space.

Jhe, thanks. I learned something new.

Great photo. Thanks for the lead...I downloaded five others.

Earlier this year we went to Southern Chile on vacation. One of my goals was to take a couple of photographs that we could blow up and enhance to hang over the fireplace and adjacent wall.

The subject matter was Torres del Paine, a set of majestic mountains in a national park. I must have taken 500 pictures of the area over a weeks time there while we were hiking etc. When we got home we narrowed it down to 3 and shared them with my DIL’s Brother In Law who is a professional photographer. Long story short he is now using AI to enhance the pictures and they are actually fantastic. Like Para’s it is an actual photograph but has a mystical tone to it. We are having them blown up to approximately 40x60” and printed on Acrylic and should have them next week. It’s amazing what can be done digitally now.