Construction Vehicles

[marmots]

my point was as soon as these things get the affect down people will start using it on lower quality images, and because of that it will fall out of favor

it's the same thing that happened with selective coloring, it's already on it's way, they just haven't gotten the affect down pat yet

 

[vipgraphx]

I understand your point and are you up for a bet?

Why is not black and white gone to the camera phones, or portraits, landscapes and so on? Because a phone can not reproduce what an actual DSLR can. The average phone user does not use the camera for HDR just simple and easy snap shots. HDR has been around a very very long time and its only recently that it has evolved and when I say recently I am not meaning this year it has been evolving for years.

 

[marmots]

ok, i see what you're saying
but i think hdr's as a practical method of exposing an image will stay for a while, but i do believe that the cartoony special affect type hdr's will fade away

whats the bet?, and whats the time frame as to when it will fad away?

 

[vipgraphx]

The bet would be for bragging rights hahahahaah if you lose you post a thread that I am king...if I loose I post a thread that you are king..hahahaha naaa just a friendly bet bro...time frame is up to you as you said it was already fading out.

 

[Dominantly]

I enjoy that first image, and don't mind the HDR touch. It's visually very interesting to look at.

 

[marmots]

ill say 2 years...

ill even mark it in my computer's calendar right now exactly 2 years in the future

 

[jamesbjenkins]

Marmot and VIP,

Hate to crash the party, but I was having this conversation with a friend of mine recently. This guy is still a huge fan of the selective color bouquet shot (AHHH! :er

What separates advanced HDR (using layer masks, HSL adjustment layers, etc.) from selective color and even smartphone HDR apps, is that it requires quite a bit of skill to get a great HDR. Selective color or "out of the box" HDR takes a couple of clicks and you're done.

While I'm sure the technology will continue to grow and allow less skilled people to produce great images, I know that the true pros will always be a few steps ahead of the big box camera crowd.

I don't see advanced HDR going anywhere anytime soon.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Agreed with Trever1t, Not everything has to be true-to-life realistic! I don't think that this type of HDR is just a fad I think it is still in it's baby years. Love it or hate it is hear to stay.

I like the processing other than the sky in the first one. It is to dark, you need to start masking in your other exposures for a better looking HDR photo, but I love everything else about this photo!!!

i lightened the sky up a little

I think what people are trying to point out to you is that a sky doesn't look like that. It doesn't look anything like that. Maybe on Jupiter or something. It's just a bi-product of bad HDR processing: rich deep blues, to baby blues, to pee-on-snow yellow, to middle gray, to black in a matter of a few pixels is not aesthetic whatsoever.

Your image is a good one, but could be great if you took the extra step to take a clean exposure you have for the clouds and mask it in. Or, in Photomatix you need to be much more liberal with your highlight smoothing.

Either way, it's not that we're a "tough crowd" per say. You hear basically a unanimous voice here telling you the sky is shoddy and needs a revamp, so run with it and see what happens.

 

[Joel_W]

I really like the composition of picture 1, but no matter what adjustments you make to the tonality of the sky, the clouds just look too far from reality. I do like picture 2 as the better of the two picture set. I think you had an original concept on how to make usually very dirty, beat up, and gernerally boring construction equipment look interesting and photogenic in a composition.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

I really like the composition of picture 1, but no matter what adjustments you make to the tonality of the sky, the clouds just look too far from reality. I do like picture 2 as the better of the two picture set. I think you had an original concept on how to make usually very dirty, beat up, and gernerally boring construction equipment look interesting and photogenic in a composition.

If he takes a non-processed exposure and masks it in, it should resolve the sky issues.

 

[EDL]

#1 for sure...only question is, when is it going to transform, stand up and take out the world?

The grapple hook on the end of that thing is mean looking, like a clawed hand just waiting to crush some hapless, mere human!

 

[EDL]

I hope I haven't overstepped any bounds here, but I took #2, and using my only software (Paint Shop Pro 8) played with #2. I tried to tone down the screaming yellow/green without losing contrast or detail and maintain the vibrancy. I worked primarily in the color balance tools, applied some fade correction and altered a bit in the channel mixer with a final touch in brightness and contrast.

 

[marmots]

it's been 2 years, and 8 days.


I don't see many people that are still fond of that style, bur don't think it's died out as a whole.

I would certainly say it's lost at least most of it's value

 

[JRE313]

it's been 2 years, and 8 days.


I don't see many people that are still fond of that style, bur don't think it's died out as a whole.

I would certainly say it's lost at least most of it's value

Marmots, Im surprised you remembered this Post.
I have definitely grown since then. Check out some of my new work.
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