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Stages of a photographer
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This explains it all….
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Perfect!!! Gotta love the HDR hole too. :lol: :lol:
Looking at that is like looking at an episode of “The Office” where you recognise traits and it becomes uncomfortable.
Thanks Martin.
Alan.
Could I just ask, why does there seem to be animosity amongst photographers towards the process of HDR?
I ask merely out of curiosity, as I have been on many forums where negative views were expressed regarding HDR. I do understand how it can be overdone, as with all other effects, but I’m wondering why specifically HDR?
:oops: Just curious :) ? I honestly don’t understand the hype/hate either way…
The Chairman wrote:
Could I just ask, why does there seem to be animosity amongst photographers towards the process of HDR?
I ask merely out of curiosity, as I have been on many forums where negative views were expressed regarding HDR. I do understand how it can be overdone, as with all other effects, but I’m wondering why specifically HDR?
Well, it’s simple really. I won’t tar all photographers with the same brush but most come to a stage when they discover HDR then post images with grey skies and neon grass with everything else being orange tinted. We all love it. Then we see the light and put it down to experience.
I know from experience on US forums (fora) that HDR is seem as a positive element of photography. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen some brilliant HDR images. It’s just the discovery of Photomatix, etc that seems to warrant the attempt to make a poor image sparkle. It frequently doesn’t.Alan.
PS – you should have seen my first one…be warned
The Chairman wrote:
:oops: Just curious :) ? I honestly don’t understand the hype/hate either way…
HDR has, when overdone, a very computer graphics type aesthetic, with all the atributes Alan mentioned.
It is not popular with many, others love it.
I have a friend who uses the technique sometimes, but I only know he uses it as it is written in his image notes, the photos look great and don’t have the “hdr-look”.For me, objectively, it is not any worse or better than any other type of “photograph”, I love a type of photography called pictorialism which is hardly realistic either. But subjectively I don’t like the hdr-look.
The worse part of hdr for me is the halos, but I’ve seem halos in very classical photos, for example recently on a Cartier-Bresson print in a museum, yuk.Aesthetic aside, it is also very tangled up in the debate over how much computer processing is acceptable before an image should be considered a computer graphic and not a photograph.
But I’m certain not trying to start any such debates with my link!Alan, your hdr photo was not so bad, beautiful curve to the shoreline. But some funny colours/glow in the foreground :D
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