IMHO: Thinking people don't hold HDR in distain. However, they correctly hold WHAT PASSES FOR HDR these days in distain.
If I could use an analogy: Imagine that Ansel Adams developed the Zone System which resulted in images that could condense or expand a wonderful range of values in a scene onto paper from black to white. Now if you saw someone producing posterized prints but calling them Ansel-Adams-esque or examples of the Zone System, you would no doubt find that to be a misrepresentation (or at least a misunderstanding) of Adams work and the Zone System. The same is true today with these overcooked images calling themselves HDR. A true HDR image will look natural but capture more detail in the shadows or highlight than a single image can achieve. It will expand/contract those values to the resulting image. It does not "posterize" the image or produce colors that do not appear in real life. As in all things in life, we can't control what others produce or what they call them. But we can learn what HDR *really* is and learn to control the process for ourselves. And if we produce something that is outside that definition, we can be informed enough to not call it HDR. And, if we point to examples of HDR, we can make sure that we are not perpetuating the misunderstanding by mislabeling the work of those who don't know any better. Was that a rant? Darren Addy Kearney, NE -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
