Hello Rob, You bring up a good point. I was reading a thread on HDR recently and that was one of the issues brought up - basically that the compression of the dynamic range of an HDR image causes it to look unnatural, and for some people that causes them to reject or dislike it. Once could argue that exposure that causes you to misinterpret the setting could have the same effect.
-- Bruce Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 1:01:31 AM, you wrote: RS> On 18/05/2010, Bruce Dayton <bkday...@daytonphoto.com> wrote: >> I guess it begs the question...Does it really matter whether it was a >> daytime or nighttime shot? If a take a shot at night and expose it >> to look more like daylight or take a shot in the daytime and expose >> it so it looks like night... RS> It's fine so long as there's limited ambiguity in the case of RS> otherwise un-manipulated images. For instance if I make a shot of my RS> back yard by moonlight it generally looks quite strange as often due RS> to its position in the sky the moon casts shadows that the sun RS> couldn't. >> Was the shot pleasing? I will certainly play around with it to see >> what it looks like more 'daylight', but I suspect you will get to see >> nice greenish water instead of the strong contrast. RS> It was pleasing, I appreciated the composition and content but due to RS> the ambiguity developed by the exposure wondered quite what was going RS> on, I guess for a straight landscape that's a little unusual. RS> I did have a play and the water does show green but the contrast can RS> be maintained and the image still remains strong. RS> -- RS> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) RS> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours RS> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
