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davidmorgan
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|  Posted 05-02-2009 at 00:03
I'm wondering what everyone thinks about the HDR effect on photographs?
Here's a photo on the aperture priority setting on my camera (white balance on auto), i.e. let the camera do the thinking:
But I can blend that with another photo...
 
...to get this one...
So, which one do you prefer?
I think it works quite well with this one...
[ This message was edited by: davidmorgan on 2009-02-05 00:12 ]
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Aluta
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| Posted 05-02-2009 at 09:53
Yours look good. I like them when they are done with thoughtfulness and taste. I've seen some that step over the line into kitsch! But overall, my opinion is that they can help to make a site as striking as it was to the naked eye, since cameras often dull a picture down.
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h_fenton
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| Posted 05-02-2009 at 10:27
I think HDR has its uses especially where you taking photos with highly contrasting highlights and shadows where taking a single photo does not represent what you can see, hdr can help here. -as with this photo
I think your top photo can just be adjusted through usual adjustment features in photoshop to make it look better
I had a quick go at it:
Often with HDR especially if it is overdone you loose the photographic representation of a place, it becomes a piece of Art akin to a painting.
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davidmorgan
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| Posted 05-02-2009 at 11:37
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| On 2009-02-05 10:27, h_fenton wrote:
I think HDR has its uses especially where you taking photos with highly contrasting highlights and shadows where taking a single photo does not represent what you can see.
I think your top photo can just be adjusted through usual adjustment features in photoshop to make it look better |
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Yes, I agree. One can easily go over the top with the sky. I guess it should be about proper lighting of the subject.
[ This message was edited by: davidmorgan on 2009-02-05 11:44 ]
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Andy B
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| Posted 05-02-2009 at 13:02
Ditto what Aluta said....
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KenWilliams
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| Posted 07-02-2009 at 19:56
I think it's hard to do HDR well and still retain the illusion of three dimensions in a photograph. Although our eyes have more range from black to white than a standard camera even with filters, we dont percieve it all at once as is claimed by proponents of the technique, there's a margin of difference that is often crossed and in the process the photograph loses depth and begins to seem two dimensional.
We can't use stereo vision to recover much depth from a image displayed on a screen or printed on a page so the brain uses another techniqe to recover a sense of depth, depth from shading. The brain assumes areas of high contrast are usually closer than areas of low contrast (think of the rock in front of you compared to the mountain way over there) and edges are more sharply defined in the foreground than background. If you are a little heavy handed with HDR you lose the effects of natural shading as the brain expects it and the image appears flat because of the lack of contrast and evenly defined edges.
If there was no opportunity to return in more suitable light, I'd probably consider it but I think it's more fun to add flashes and experiment out in the real world rather than fiddle with sliders on the PC. After 8 years of slider fiddling it sure does get tiresome!
It's only my opinion, and it probably will change at some point in the future as it has since I started posting photos on here. It's great to squeeze every last drop out of a photograph on the computer but I dont think it can really compare to adding light, filters and a little magic in the real world.
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sem
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| Posted 07-02-2009 at 20:17
About 6months ago a friend gave me the address for a free HDR processing download, that he said was better and easier than Photoshop. Unfortunately I lost it and can't remember the program name.
As I don't know when I'll see him again (he's a cameraman working abroad), anyone know of anything like this.
Cheers
Sem
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