I have a question: Are most of the photos I see on this forum HDR? Some I can tell by looking or the fact it's in the title but some I am unsure of i.e. the turtle from a couple of...

luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC

Are most of the photos I see on this forum HDR? Some I can tell by looking or the fact it's in the title but some I am unsure of i.e. the turtle from a couple of days ago. It looked so real I wanted to reach through the iPad screen and touch it.

Macromad Loc: New Zealand

Most are not.

luvmypets wrote:

Are most of the photos I see on this forum HDR? Some I can tell by looking or the fact it's in the title but some I am unsure of i.e. the turtle from a couple of days ago. It looked so real I wanted to reach through the iPad screen and touch it.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I think there is more going on then will be admitted to. Not so much HDR but Topaz adjustments. Topaz is a great tool that really helps bring out the colors and add definition to a photo giving it a feeling of depth. Light Room also helps bring up the contrast and clarity makes everything seem brighter and better definition between the colors. Thats Just My Two Cents.

JesseMurphy Loc: Ste-Sophie Quebec Canada

mine are not HDR

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Only the images in the HDR section should be HDR. Others may be, but 99% shouldn't.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

jesseleduc wrote:

mine are not HDR

I said not HDR in the true sense but your telling use that you don't manipulate them in LR or Topaz to some degree. And I only implied that it's done more then most will admit. Mummm, LOL

CResQ Loc: Cobble Hill, BC

Bill Houghton wrote:

I think there is more going on then will be admitted to. Not so much HDR but Topaz adjustments. Topaz is a great tool that really helps bring out the colors and add definition to a photo giving it a feeling of depth. Light Room also helps bring up the contrast and clarity makes everything seem brighter and better definition between the colors. Thats Just My Two Cents.

Smile, quite true. I think 99.9% of members here fess up to pp. We all have a vision in our minds eye when we press the shutter button. When the picture that comes out of our camera falls short of what we were expecting we use software to realize our vision, myself included. I have only submitted 3 pictures on this site that have come straight out of the camera..... OKAY!....TWO were cropped!!!! BUT I hastily add there are a few members that do not need to take their pictures into any kind of PP software, they are though, but the few. Cheers

luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC

Thank you, everyone!!!

1stJedi Loc: Southern Orange County

Ok, I'm about to demonstrate my ignorance: What is HDR?

For myself, I've discovered that I'm a big fan of the straight out of the camera technique, yet I do know that even a mega star such as Ansel Adams was very particular about the efforts he made in the darkroom.

As of this writing, I've downloaded an old version of a photo editing program and all I have been able to figure out is how to crop a shot, . . . and I'm not even sure I've got that down right.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

luvmypets wrote:

Are most of the photos I see on this forum HDR? Some I can tell by looking or the fact it's in the title but some I am unsure of i.e. the turtle from a couple of days ago. It looked so real I wanted to reach through the iPad screen and touch it.

don't like HDR as the majority of users over do it, never used it never will

HDR should be in the HDR section not general photo section

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

I always believed that a great many of the photos displayed on here were taken with a prime lens, they still may be, but i am convinced now that photoshop has an important part to play indeed i wonder how many would get on if photoshop were not available and they just had to rely on skill.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

oldmalky wrote:

I always believed that a great many of the photos displayed on here were taken with a prime lens, they still may be, but i am convinced now that photoshop has an important part to play indeed i wonder how many would get on if photoshop were not available and they just had to rely on skill.

Surely prime lens use is rare these days as the majority use zooms, I have not owned a prime for 30 years

dooragdragon Loc: Alma , Arkansas

No HDR effects here , straight from the camera as I saw it.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Mine are mostly a normal shot, but edited through Lightroom for added clarity or color saturation.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

1stJedi wrote:

Ok, I'm about to demonstrate my ignorance: What is HDR?

For myself, I've discovered that I'm a big fan of the straight out of the camera technique, yet I do know that even a mega star such as Ansel Adams was very particular about the efforts he made in the darkroom.

As of this writing, I've downloaded an old version of a photo editing program and all I have been able to figure out is how to crop a shot, . . . and I'm not even sure I've got that down right.

HDR = High Dynamic Range

This means that it is impossible for any of today's cameras (or yesterday's for that matter) to capture the full range of light to which the sensor is exposed. Most cameras are capable of 5-7 stops of light. Some can go a bit higher.

HDR allows the image to be processed using multiple images, shot at varying exposures, to be rendered into a single image where the full range of light is represented.

By comparison, our eyes are capable of 15+ stops. So, HDR when properly developed, will render an image that is closer to what our eyes saw at the scene.