is this hdr?

[manaheim]

I get it.

Bitter, that's an AWESOME picture of the clock. How did you do that? lol

 

[DSRay]

For my two cents, the exaggerated blues and halos around buildings are tell tale signs of a poorly executed HDR process.

 

[TreeofLifeStairs]

Gavjenks, what is the dynamic range of the human eye? It seems to me that any dynamic range larger that what we are used to seeing would look strange regardless of if it was HDR or not.

 

[Gavjenks]

The eye works completely differently, it's very difficult to say.

1) Your eye masks the image on the fly on a very small scale. It would be the equivalent of your camera changing the ISO individually for every pixel to adapt to each image.
2) You use semantic life knowledge to accomplish #1: Your brain knows that a chair is a chair and a cloud is a cloud and which one you need more texture and detail in, based on your current goals, and it will prioritize maximum visual signal accuracy in the specific portions of the image that are most important to what you WANT to see right now by adjusting those masks. This is obviously light years ahead of the capabilities of cameras with static programming and no connection to our brains.
3) You don't process a whole image at once. You move your fovea around and basically stitch half a dozen "frames" together whenever you look at a scene. Your brain is also adjusting the dynamic range for every one of those frames and fudging /readjusting the dynamic ranges in between / in past shots as you update the next ones in your scan.
4) Due to the whole life knowledge thing, a good chunk of what you "see" isn't even there. Your brain is just filling in what you expect to see in such a situation. What may actually be an inky black shadow with nothing in it, your brain might paste in some grass detail, etc. Cameras can't do this, because they don't know what they're looking at. Does that count as dynamic range if you use your imagination to avoid blowing a highlight? Unclear.

So does that count as "native" dynamic range? It's basically doing stuff like you do in software in HDR, but on crack / 10x more complicated. But it's also "normal" for that system. So it's very ambiguous whether you'd call it "HDR" or not, or "what the dynamic range of the eye is" (instantaneous one-shot flashed image dynamic range? Or heavily adjusted real world situation dynamic range? They differ by tens of stops)

 

[bigal1000]

going through the hard drive. i took a few hdr. in camera. Thinking this is one of them. it is "okay".
notice the white around the building edges though. color seems a little off. something not quite right.
so, a. is the one of the hdr ones? sadly im not even sure i was playing with 3d too.
b. why does it look messed up?

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Yes though a bad one ? By the way why are DSLR"s overrated ??