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HDR Technique Tip 2

Master exposures taken in even the most difficult light, because those are the most dramatic moments in nature, which you'll most want to capture competently.
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HDR Isn’t Just a Crutch, or a Crime!
Crescent City Sunset, originally uploaded by Jeffrey Sullivan. Some photographers have fallen in love with High Dynamic Range (HDR) post-processing, producing dramatic but strange results. Other photographers dismiss the ofte…

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9 thoughts on “HDR Technique Tip 2”

  1. Agreed +Jeff Sullivan, +Joseph Johnson
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  2. Good point and info.  I tend to try to make my HDR shots looks as natural as possible.  I am not personally a fan of the surreal HDR images in general, but as you said, art is subjective to each person's individual tastes.  I have a friend that loves the "Vibrant" setting on her point and shoot.  It saturates the shot and makes her beach shots with skies and water really blue.  That's what she cares about even though her husband's skin looks super pink in all of those shots.  I don't tell her what's wrong with it though, I just smile and say nice shot.  What I don't really care for is when people criticize others saying what they are doing is wrong for things like that or because they used HDR or because they didn't do it exactly like that person would have.

  3. Good article Jeff. I've never understood people's problem with HDR. It's a tool like Photoshop exposure controls or a graduated neutral density filter. People can use tools for good or for evil, and as David said, good and evil are really in the eye of the beholder when it comes to art/photography.

  4. +David R Robinson  I agree, the debate gets a little old, and both sides, when it's all-or-nothing for or against, miss both potential benefits and potential drawbacks of what can be a useful tool/technique.  

    Before 2008 I was using exposure blending of one form or another for over 50% of my images because my cameras at the time had such poor dynamic range.  I went completely the other direction after buying the Canon 5D Mark II and dropped my exposure blending including HDR to 2-3% because I could do pretty well with single exposures most of the time (with a reasonable amount of post processing).

    Having occupied both sides of the fence, I don't really care any more what tool I use, they're all just tools.  I still want to get a realistic result, but i no longer have to avoid HDR because it has gotten much better.  And Lightroom has improved as well, and is better-integrated with Photomatix.   So the combination is better than either of the two separately.  Although my percentage of HDR-processed shots has crept back up, much of the time I can't tell in the end whether or not I used it. If I have to look at the file name to be sure one way of the other, I've succeeded, and how I got there is largely irrelevant.

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