What's your take on HDR?

[manaheim]

That's the stealthiest HDR I've ever seen... I literally can't tell it's HDR. But then I also am not sure why you did HDR on it...looks like you could have gotten it in a single exposure pretty easily. If it wasn't you, VI, I'd be more pointed... but I know you know what you're doing, so I'm curious.

 

[Village Idiot]

That's the stealthiest HDR I've ever seen... I literally can't tell it's HDR. But then I also am not sure why you did HDR on it...looks like you could have gotten it in a single exposure pretty easily. If it wasn't you, VI, I'd be more pointed... but I know you know what you're doing, so I'm curious.

It's an HDR that hasn't been tone mapped to hell. It could have been done in 3 shots, but it was done in 7. It was really bright out, so with one exposure, the sky was blown, the background and part of the car were exposed correctly and the front of the car where it's noticably darker lost all detail and the tires looked like part of the car. I didn't have lighting equipment with me and this was a spur of the moment photo, so I did the next best thing, I broke out a tripod and took a bunch of exposures for an HDR photo.

After it was put together in Photomatix, I did my best to make it look natural by still having shadows, but pulling the details out enough so you could make out details in them.

 

[mhandy]

I recently used HDR taking photos of a room in my house for rent. I find it hard to take indoor photos of rooms so I figured I would try it out. It worked REALLY well! I guess my take is pretty subjective because sometimes I like the dreamy look and other times I don't, so i guess it really depends on the photo.

check out the before and after of the room. I used photomatix for this

original

HDR

 

[AnthonyRyanPhoto]

If it is done right I like it, and that means whether the effect is strong or not. It just has to fit with the scene