Amen. Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 8/16/10, CheekyGeek <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
