panoramic tours

[glorybound]

I stumbled across this. These are probably the best renderings I have scene, or are the not renderings?

http://www.regal360.com/clients/devils/index.html

[glorybound]

Okay, upon further inspection, there is no way these are renderings. I think they are heavily photoshoped photos.

[plastic_]

That's so called "hdr photos", where local contrast is exaggerated. Some people seem to like their photos to look like renders.

[Subburb]

You can achieve this kind af result using the Redynamix photoshop plugin (or standalone) or the biggest product : Dynamic photo HDR.
http://www.mediachance.com/plugins/redynamix.html

With it you can make a pseudo HDR with a single shoot or use bracketed photos if you have. I use it often to boost my landscape photos.
Of course you can use it to boost your renders.

you can see an example on a pic i shoot last december in Tsitsikama national park, south africa (4:30 AM !).

[plastic_]

You can also do it with NIK Color Efex, using the Tonal Contrast page, and/or Photoshop shadow/highlights adjust.