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genuinely not aimed at anyone or any thread in particular (though there's plenty of horrendous examples on flickr)... there are plenty of examples of perfectly nice HDR out there, seem to remember the luminous landscapes dude having some cool ones, and a fair amount of stuckincustoms' stuff is pretty awesome...and this is because they're good photographers and good photos FIRST, and they then tastefully use the tools available to improve them.
HDR is merely a way of tricking your way around the technological limitations imposed by digital sensors, not an excuse to make photos look horrendous because it means that you can spend more time at the computer.
if you feel the need to put 'HDR warning!', maybe contemplate if you -really- like your finished image - yes you've just spent ages in photomatix or whatever tweaking every slider under the sun, but you are evidently sufficiently unsure about your image that you feel the need to warn people before they view it, for fear of being criticised...and yet you obviously already know what that criticism will be.
it's just a technique... and one that can't be used to suddenly make a boring photo amazing, or one that magically makes everything better. Get it right in camera, and then use HDR tricks if the camera can't keep up with what you're asking of it And to quote Adams, 'the print is the prize' - who cares about how you got there, what strange processing you used, it's the finished image that counts.
half a question, half a discussion opener...discuss...
HDR is merely a way of tricking your way around the technological limitations imposed by digital sensors, not an excuse to make photos look horrendous because it means that you can spend more time at the computer.
if you feel the need to put 'HDR warning!', maybe contemplate if you -really- like your finished image - yes you've just spent ages in photomatix or whatever tweaking every slider under the sun, but you are evidently sufficiently unsure about your image that you feel the need to warn people before they view it, for fear of being criticised...and yet you obviously already know what that criticism will be.
it's just a technique... and one that can't be used to suddenly make a boring photo amazing, or one that magically makes everything better. Get it right in camera, and then use HDR tricks if the camera can't keep up with what you're asking of it And to quote Adams, 'the print is the prize' - who cares about how you got there, what strange processing you used, it's the finished image that counts.
half a question, half a discussion opener...discuss...
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