NickTrop
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Just started playing in this sandbox. Anyone else? Any tips?
High Dynamic Range Examples - Anyone Else Fooling Around with This?
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antiquark
Derek Ross
It has developed a bad reputation, too many people go too far with it.
As a result, it seems that the best approach with HDR is to make sure the HDR effect isn't visible in your image.
As a result, it seems that the best approach with HDR is to make sure the HDR effect isn't visible in your image.
FrankS
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Nick, you've changed. It's like I don't even know who you are anymore.
😉
(What antiquark said.)
😉
(What antiquark said.)
ishpop
tall person
ugh. Really find it annoying. Whenever I go to public markets there is always a photog selling HDR landscapes, which, I can appreciate if people are buying I suppose, but it looks like total cheese to me.
Bleh.
Bleh.
stompyq
Well-known
Please don't. The majority of HDR images look like a dogs dinner
NickTrop
Veteran
Yeah - heard that too. Not sure if I like it or not. Different, though.
NickTrop
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Frank - don't worry. I do this every few years... Digital-Film-Digital-Film, vigorously defending the virtues of both, until I go 180 again. I'll be back to "Film Nick". (Probably when I get a decent film scanner...) It's part of my multiple personality disorder. One thing I'll nevah change though is my leftist/socialist political views. Of that you can be certain. 😉
gavinlg
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Someone on here once described a heavy handed HDR approach as looking like a childs fantasy wonderland nightmare... or something like that.
It can be used well if used subtly in situations that need it, but IMO the limitations of scenes make for more interesting photos than 20+ stops of information which just looks fake.
It can be used well if used subtly in situations that need it, but IMO the limitations of scenes make for more interesting photos than 20+ stops of information which just looks fake.
NickTrop
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Good feedback. Me thinks if I play further, I'll tone the HDR thing down to where it's subtle... is it or isn't it? High Dynamic Range to Higher Dynamic Range. I'm not sure what to make of the experiments I posted. I don't think they look totally like crap, I don't particularly like them either... they just look kinda weird.
FrankS
Registered User
Good to hear.
jamesdfloyd
Film is cheap therapy!
I've done a lot of HDR, but when I first saw it take off as an option, I was mortified by the extreme over-saturation virtually everyone was doing. To me, I always treated HDR as a "large scale fill flash". My process in Photomatix is to do the nature option.
However, in the end, I've stopped doing HDR because I realized I was using it as a crutch and not using proper photography technics. What caused me to realize this was when I met a "newbee" photographer making a fuss about his "shoot" at Longwood Gardens - he was asking like Ansel Adams and when I spoke with him, I quickly found out that he had only bought his Nikon D60 one month prior. Yes, he had been doing photography for only a month and using HDR to solve all his poor photography technics.
After that, I realized that his actions where in fact the state of affairs with current photography - that all the "newbees" telling me that they where going to fix their poor technics in Photoshop.
However, in the end, I've stopped doing HDR because I realized I was using it as a crutch and not using proper photography technics. What caused me to realize this was when I met a "newbee" photographer making a fuss about his "shoot" at Longwood Gardens - he was asking like Ansel Adams and when I spoke with him, I quickly found out that he had only bought his Nikon D60 one month prior. Yes, he had been doing photography for only a month and using HDR to solve all his poor photography technics.
After that, I realized that his actions where in fact the state of affairs with current photography - that all the "newbees" telling me that they where going to fix their poor technics in Photoshop.
antiquark
Derek Ross
FWIW, it's hard to tell they're HDR.
Steve M.
Veteran
I like the old HDR.
Tri-X in a medium format camera 🙂.
Tri-X in a medium format camera 🙂.
FrankS
Registered User
At some point HDR becomes photo-illustration.
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ampguy
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Does this look like HDR?
Alpacaman
keen bean
The foreground looks normal, but the tops of the hills look wonky to me, but I don't think I would have noticed that if the topic was not already HDR. I am not sure.
antiquark
Derek Ross
Yeah, looks pretty HDR-ish. The clouds especially.
GoneSavage
not actually
Definitely! It's like the image is shouting at me. The dark edges around the clouds and across the trees on the horizon are dead giveaways. The bridge looks a bit like a paper cut-out.
ampguy
Veteran
Thanks Alpacaman and antiquark, yes it is hdr, merged an under and overexposed frame in PSE 8. It does have more latitude than either of the 2 shots individually, but at the cost of a normal looking photo to me.
The original regular M8/35 lux images are here:
http://matsumura.smugmug.com/Photography/hdr-m8-35-lux-pse-8/13659942_AcvYY#997217882_pq3nH
The original regular M8/35 lux images are here:
http://matsumura.smugmug.com/Photography/hdr-m8-35-lux-pse-8/13659942_AcvYY#997217882_pq3nH
gavinlg
Veteran
From the treeline upwards to the mountain/sky looks very much like HDR.
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