On 17 August 2010 01:06, CheekyGeek <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Sort of but I'll do one better. Images that are referred to as HDR generally aren't, they are LDR images, HDR images are very difficult to display hence tonemapping is applied in order to try to squeeze the dynamic range in the HDR image down to a display ready LDR image. Camera RAW files are HDR images. So the look which most everyone now refers to as an HDR image is actually a tone-mapped image. Tone-mapping can be applied in an unlimited number of ways to produce anything from a photo-realistic image to something with wildly blown out contrast and colour but none of the resultant images are HDR ;-) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
