HDR photos
Nov 10, 2017 00:50:42 #
Interesting photos here: https://gurushots.com/article/hdr-gets-a-bad-rap-these-28-images-might-change-your-mind
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Nov 11, 2017 08:37:15 #
In all the frames on the link I notice that HDR has brought extreme light and shadow (dynamic range) into view without flattening; retaining contrast and exposing detail that brings life to them. HDR gives the photographer a tool to use when the dynamic range is outside the ability of the camera sensor that the photographer wants to record. Neophytes shooting anything and everything with HDR end up with lifeless crap and based on that no wonder there's hubbub. Maybe it's best not to drive a nail with a Crescent wrench.
Nov 11, 2017 10:04:36 #
Nov 11, 2017 15:10:23 #
Hank Radt wrote:
Interesting photos here: https://gurushots.com/article/hdr-gets-a-bad-rap-these-28-images-might-change-your-mind
Thanks for posting to that site. Those were nicely done not over cooked, like some I’ve seen in the past.
Nov 11, 2017 16:04:09 #
RichardSM wrote:
Thanks for posting to that site. Those were nicely done not over cooked, like some I’ve seen in the past.
Like MANY I've seen in the past.
Nov 12, 2017 05:00:40 #
papa wrote:
In all the frames on the link I notice that HDR ha... (show quote)
"That the photographer wants to record" does not always make for pleasing or natural pictures, although likely to be more informative. Those street scenes do not, for me look natural. They appear basked in light that just is not there and is not believable. I would have preferred to see a few deep shadows, and other shadows perhaps not so deep, more in keeping with an ill-lit street after dark.
Nov 17, 2017 23:11:10 #
Incredibly beautiful images. This is what HDR is supposed to be. Depth of range only to be gotten through HDR. If only I could do that!
Nov 17, 2017 23:26:35 #
papa wrote:
Maybe it's best not to drive a nail with a Crescent wrench.
Or a 15lb sledge hammer. Most every HDR image I see is so over-processed it's just plain ugly. Not worth a second look. The images on this link are something we all should shoot for.
Nov 18, 2017 03:27:54 #
10MPlayer wrote:
Incredibly beautiful images. This is what HDR is supposed to be. Depth of range only to be gotten through HDR. If only I could do that!
Let us, for a moment, pretend that the dynamic range of our cameras was unlimited. Would we want to make photos taken at night or late evening as bright as day? or would we rather show the gentle light of evening, or the beautiful silver light of a full moon, or the welcoming light of a new dawn? or the light of an approaching storm? or even the inky black shadows cast by a harsh sun, which disappear when you are in that shadow, and the sunlight itself is then blinding?
This thirst for detail at all costs seperates the photographer from the artist - "artists licence" has become "photographers licence" - in other words recording what we cannot see rather than what we do see.
Nov 18, 2017 20:25:12 #
Delderby wrote:
Let us, for a moment, pretend that the dynamic ran... (show quote)
Agreed. I like my images to look like real life. But there is a place for HDR. It's not realistic, more painterly to me, but some of the images are amazing beautiful. It has its place just like black and white has its place. Or abstract or street. They all have a place they are all photography.
Nov 19, 2017 03:45:37 #
10MPlayer wrote:
Agreed. I like my images to look like real life. But there is a place for HDR. It's not realistic, more painterly to me, but some of the images are amazing beautiful. It has its place just like black and white has its place. Or abstract or street. They all have a place they are all photography.
I guess HDR as a tool can too easily be overdone - like other tools - sharpeners, saturation, contrast. The Photographers's pics were not overdone in the true sense, and I have resorted to faux HDR myself on occasion. What the photographers achieved was, in fact, pretty clever. But as you say - painterly.
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