The mighty MSC Kalina, sister ship to the largest container ship ever built (by TEU) the MSC Daniela.

Photo By gCaptain

Today’s Photo Of The Week is an HDR view of Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI)- Shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. This photo was taken from the crown of a newbuild drillship’s derrick. Notice the 5 heavy lift sheerleg cranes in the background.

More photos from gCaptain’s shipyard collection here: SHI Shipyard Korea

For more amazing HDR photos don’t miss this blog’s HDR Ship Photos tag or gCaptain’s HDR Flickr Tag.
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Maritime Photographer Frodog brings us this HD image of the infamous MSC Napoli in drydock. He writes:

In a Dry Dock aft of the Resolution was this Hulk of a ship, being broken up. it transpired to be the Napoli, which ran aground around about this time last year, off the Devon and Dorset coast, with many items of her cargoes washing ashore, including BMW motor cycles amongst other stuff, which bounty hunters rightly claimed ownership. Whilst looking around, there was a decontamination unit working. What are they decontaminating? I ask. I was lucky enough not to be asked not to take photographs, unlike a colleague of mine who was prevented from doing so! LINK

On June 12, efforts to remove the final section of the wrecked container ship got under way as salvors working to raise the stern – including the ship’s 1,400-tonne engine – laid new chains under the hull to help them lift it off the sea bed . Salvors aim to bring the remains of the vessel to the surface by August so it can be scrapped.

Read the latest on the MSC Napoli salvage operation at BBC HERE

These photos show the laying of the bow section of a new drillship being built in South Korea. Click on the photos for more details or HERE for more shipyard photos from this set.

Smashing Magazine, the site for web designers, has an excelent collection of HDR photos. They explain;

Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. In graphics HDR imaging is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows. This is usually achieved by modifying photos with image processing software for tone-mapping. And the results can be really incredible; in fact, many artists and designers come up with some pretty fancy results.

Here are a few to wet your appetite, click on the images for photographer information; [Continue Reading →]

by bhophoto

HDR photo of an FPSO being built at the Hyundai Shipyard in Korea. This is only the thumbnail… Click on the photo for a larger view!

For more HDR photos of shipyards visit Flickr: LINK