High Dynamic Range Examples - Anyone Else Fooling Around with This?

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Just started playing in this sandbox. Anyone else? Any tips?

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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.
 
Nick, you've changed. It's like I don't even know who you are anymore.


;)

(What antiquark said.)
 
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.
 
antiquark said:
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.
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Yeah - heard that too. Not sure if I like it or not. Different, though.
 
FrankS said:
Nick, you've changed. It's like I don't even know who you are anymore.


;)

(What antiquark said.)
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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. ;)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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