Hey guys had a thought bugging me all day
Would a HDR image have more contrast than a a normal image of the same scene and so make a potentially better B&W shot?
HDR works by compressing the tonal range in an image so that it can show a greater range of tones, or handle a bigger luminosity range than either film or sensors are capable of resolving without burned out highlights or blocked up shadows. In compressing that tonal range we must reduce the contrast?
A monochrome shot doesn't have to be contrasty to be good though, in fact it's not usually considered desirable. Ansell Adams and a gazillion other photographers have looked for black at one end of the scale, white at the other, and a nice even range of tones in between, and that would seem to indicate that the HDR image is a good candidate for mono conversion.
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