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HDR processing, thoughts?

Not sure why some of you dont like HDR. As you can see, if the OP only posted the after photo, most of us wont even know it is HDR.

But anyway, check out this link and video!
HDR video accomplished using dual 5D Mark IIs, is exactly what it sounds like -- Engadget

Much preferred the correctly exposed sample as opposed to the HDR

Wait a sec! This I gotta check out!

To the OP, love your HDR conversion! Its not over cooked and looks great!
 
i can't see anything but a red x in a box.

And, HDR, is for those scence that contain more contrast than a sensor can handle, how it is tonemapped creates the love or hate it reactions.
 
Not sure why some of you dont like HDR. As you can see, if the OP only posted the after photo, most of us wont even know it is HDR.

in other words, a good hdr is not obviously an hdr. :thumbup:
 
But you cant correctly expose some situations withouth making something blown because the range is too high!

Not sure why some of you dont like HDR. As you can see, if the OP only posted the after photo, most of us wont even know it is HDR.

But anyway, check out this link and video!
HDR video accomplished using dual 5D Mark IIs, is exactly what it sounds like -- Engadget

Much preferred the correctly exposed sample as opposed to the HDR
As is the same with the human eye! It's the small nigs and nags that I love about photography
 
You know why a pirate wear an eye patch right? So they can have HDR vision when they fight in the dark (when they enter dark area in the middle of the day, like the hull of a ship) LOL. Not lying.. look it up ;).
 
People who have seen me comment on the topic of HDR know that I'm not a huge fan of it. In reality, I think the idea of HDR is one of the coolest things to happen to photography since the DSLR. What I don't like are the overbaked, trite, wannabe surreal shots that most people mistake with HDR. HDR simply means a shot that has more tonal information than the sensor can handle. Tone mapping is where the weird stuff comes in. HDR and Tone mapping are tools. They aren't appropriate for every shot, but sometimes, it's the only way to get the job done.

Having said that, I think what you're posting is what the original intent of the technology was. Although I don't think HDR was really needed for some of the shots, you've shown how you can use it to bring out subtle tonal and color information that might have been lost without it. Although some of those shots could have been probably been done without HDR, you're showing just how powerful the technology is.

Nice work. :)
 
Cheers LCARS, I will reshoot that one and get the composition right.

What I am really liking about these shots and what you guys cant see at this res is the fine detail, I will post some crops a bit later. I print large, and I am a pixel peeper, the difference in fine detail can be quite dramatic.

HDR is just an additional way of capturing a scene, how that information is used and tone mapped is up to the editor, as I have mentioned for those shots I was going for accuracy and true to life, I think the more surrealistic forms of HDR processing definately have their place and are just the photographers artistic expression at the end of the day.
 

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