On 5/4/2020 15:58:25, Bill wrote:
On 5/4/2020 1:31 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I agree. HDR is a tool that enables artistic expression. Just as a painter can
resort to a pallet knife in lieu of a brush, a photographer can employ
different tools to achieve an effect. I like the shot you singled out.
It's important to make a distinction between HDR, which is merely a method of
capturing a scene that has a longer range than the sensor can handle, and tone
mapping, which seems to be done so often in combination with HDR that the two
are often treated as two parts of the same whole.
This is an HDR image that I did when I was using the decidedly short range K7:
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/HDRSample.html
K7, 12-24 lens at f/11, 8 exposures.
I agree that what most people criticize in HDR images is the tone mapping rather
than the HDR itself, but they are two parts of the whole.
You don't have to go to the extremes of over-saturation some photographers use,
but how would you use HDR to create an image without tone mapping?
That image is a perfect example of why I say HDR is best when it's not obvious
that it is HDR.
Looking at that Trey Ratcliff gallery reminds me of the Thomas Edison quote
about not having failed, but having found 10,000 ways that don't work.
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