Is HDR a trendy gimmick? Do you care?

[unpopular]

Also, there are techniques that look just as natural as anything else.

90% of what we think of, and become so annoyed with, is tone mapping. Which in itself isn't HDR but a processing technique.

If you're into HDR, for fricks sake, PLEASE LOOK HERE and throw away Reinhardt!

LR Enfuse - Blend Multiple Exposures Together in Adobe Lightroom

 

[snowbear114 45]

Trend? No. It is a process used to overcome a camera's limitations. The over-cooked tone-mapped monstrosities I tend to see in some places will eventually go away when the next "flavor of the month" technique (probably something to do with drones/r.c. hovercraft) comes along.

Do I care? Not really. I do what I like.

Remember when selective colorizing was just oh-so-cool?

It still is among some of the "YANAP" targets.

 

[robbins.photo]

I think every photographer should try SC at least once.

Like HDR.

And broccoli.

How are you going to know for sure until you've tried it?

See, that's exactly the sort of crap your mom would say to trick you into eating broccoli - when you knew good and well anything that looked like that and smelled like that was just not going to taste good. But you'd go and do it anyway.. and bam. Yup, you were right. Lousy.

 

[snowbear114 45]

I think every photographer should try SC at least once.

Like HDR.

And broccoli.

How are you going to know for sure until you've tried it?

See, that's exactly the sort of crap your mom would say to trick you into eating broccoli - when you knew good and well anything that looked like that and smelled like that was just not going to taste good. But you'd go and do it anyway.. and bam. Yup, you were right. Lousy.

Actually, I like broccoli.
And spinach.

And I did try SC once. Well, actually twice but it was the same photo and I was trying to see if I got a better result with watercolor or oil paint. Oil paint won so I trash canned the watercolor version.

 

[Peeb70 6]

Trend? No. It is a process used to overcome a camera's limitations. The over-cooked tone-mapped monstrosities I tend to see in some places will eventually go away when the next "flavor of the month" technique (probably something to do with drones/r.c. hovercraft) comes along.

Do I care? Not really. I do what I like.

Remember when selective colorizing was just oh-so-cool?

It still is among some of the "YANAP" targets.

OK- you forced me to google that- and I got this:
You Are Not a Photographer Exposing fauxtographers since 2011

 

[robbins.photo]

I think every photographer should try SC at least once.

Like HDR.

And broccoli.

How are you going to know for sure until you've tried it?

See, that's exactly the sort of crap your mom would say to trick you into eating broccoli - when you knew good and well anything that looked like that and smelled like that was just not going to taste good. But you'd go and do it anyway.. and bam. Yup, you were right. Lousy.

Actually, I like broccoli.
And spinach.

And I did try SC once. Well, actually twice but it was the same photo and I was trying to see if I got a better result with watercolor or oil paint. Oil paint won so I trash canned the watercolor version.

Wow.. your mom just loved you to pieces didn't she? Lol

 

[snowbear114 45]

Trend? No. It is a process used to overcome a camera's limitations. The over-cooked tone-mapped monstrosities I tend to see in some places will eventually go away when the next "flavor of the month" technique (probably something to do with drones/r.c. hovercraft) comes along.

Do I care? Not really. I do what I like.

Remember when selective colorizing was just oh-so-cool?

It still is among some of the "YANAP" targets.

OK- you forced me to google that- and I got this:
You Are Not a Photographer Exposing fauxtographers since 2011

That is correct.

 

[Peeb70 6]

Trend? No. It is a process used to overcome a camera's limitations. The over-cooked tone-mapped monstrosities I tend to see in some places will eventually go away when the next "flavor of the month" technique (probably something to do with drones/r.c. hovercraft) comes along.

Do I care? Not really. I do what I like.

Remember when selective colorizing was just oh-so-cool?

It still is among some of the "YANAP" targets.

OK- you forced me to google that- and I got this:
You Are Not a Photographer Exposing fauxtographers since 2011

Awesome stuff!
EDIT: just perused a few more pages- some funny, and some genuinely disturbing.

 

[unpopular]

Schindler's List was the one and only good excuse for selective coloring in the history of photography.

I'm not saying it can't be done well, I mean, there is Schindler's List. But ...

Ok yeah. Unless you're Stephen Speilberg and setting out to make a masterpiece... It sucks.

 

[snowbear114 45]

Schindler's List was the one and only good excuse for selective coloring in the history of photography.

I'm not saying it can't be done well, I mean, there is Schindler's List. But ...

Ok yeah. Unless you're Stephen Speilberg and setting out to make a masterpiece... It sucks.

I remember an ad for some kind of OTC - maybe a yellow pill. It was effective - put your attention right where the ad company wanted it.

I seem to recall someone here did a very nice SC image that worked; a leaf, I believe.

 

[unpopular]

Nope! Schindler's List. That's all.

 

[wfooshee3 2]

HDR can produce an image that overcomes the dynamic range limitations of the camera. When used for that, it's a very useful tool indeed.

When you can look at an image and you immediately know it's HDR because of the halos on the edges and the over-saturated metallic colors, then it's not a good use of the tool.

Like CGI in movies, you shouldn't be able to tell it was used if it's used correctly.

 

[TCampbell]

There are two versions of HDR...

There's the surrealistic, very obviously fake, over-saturated, looks someone someone is trying to pass of a "paint-by-numbers" painting as a masterpiece version of photography.

And then there are well-done HDR images that are simply as a way to keep the darks from being clipped and the brights from being blown out -- but if someone didn't tell you it was an HDR you might never have guessed.

The former seems to be a passing fad (and you'll always have people who still hang on to passing fads and just refuse to let it go).

The later is likely here to stay... at least here to stay until sensors become so good nobody needs the technique anymore.

 

[Derrel]

Dogs Playing Poker originated around 1903, and even today, in 2015, is STILL available new, from Target stores, and other retailers. Art.com - Dogs Playing Poker Framed Poster Target

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People LOVE schlock....

 

[Designer]

Dogs Playing Poker originated around 1903, and even today, in 2015, is STILL available new, from Target stores, and other retailers. Art.com - Dogs Playing Poker Framed Poster Target

Dogs Playing Poker - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

People LOVE schlock....

I think I still have a necktie with that image on it. I had it for when I attended some kind of "arty" thing. I used to try to match my neckwear to the occasion.