Comments on: 35 Expressive Examples of Stunning HDR Photography

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:03:43 +0000

So, at what point do we stop calling DIGITAL ART photography? Some are indeed and technically, photographs. Others, there is no way they can still be considered a photograph.

What a waste of 3 minutes…..

By: Kees van Surksum

Kees van Surksum — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:42:59 +0000

I totally agree with most of the postings above. A lot of these images are definitely NO HDR-images (like the very good images by Dave Hill, to which the rest of the images are like an insult!)

These overly done tone-mapping maybe a matter of taste, but judged objectively, most of them are NO good examples of good HDR photography. Apart from that: HDR is in my opnion highly overestimated and most of the time this technique offers no added value whatsoever. Most high end SLRs can produce RAW files with 8-11 LV dynamic range and don’t need HDR for 80% of lighting situations. Thus, the tone mapping examples above are simply an example of bad taste in post production.

By: S. Edward Wilson

S. Edward Wilson — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:44:13 +0000

I completely agree – more like airbrush than photography – even more like paintings…not photography – way overdone.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:02:14 +0000

those pictures are no HDR-photos anymore, they´re more like excessive photoshop-paintings based on photos.

and some of them even cause eye-cancer.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:02:47 +0000

Justin,
A true HDR shot entails combining the full Dynamic Range of the image. This means pulling detail from the range of Black with detail all the way to white with detail. By using 1 normally exposed RAW image you cannot achieve the same results. If you could get perfect detail across the ENTIRE range from one exposure then HDR would not be a useful tool.

By: Witney Accountants

Witney Accountants — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:37:25 +0000

Simply Awesome!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:08:06 +0000

Sorry to argue but they simply CAN.

If you open a RAW file and adjust the exposure slider you can approximate the multiple exposures shot in camera and export each as a separate file. Then you can pull these into Photomatix or whatever and process an HDR shot. The dynamic range created by using this technique will not be the same as bracketed shots, but the results are so close that it’s a very effective technique for HDR action shots.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:02:42 +0000

Yes, we’ve had to figure this out the hard way. Needless to say, he is no longer writing for us.

By: Ben gribbin

Ben gribbin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:56:02 +0000

Joel Reyes is a conman & theif! http://forum.freelanceswitch.com/topic.php?id=6268

By: StetEStilz

StetEStilz — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:36 +0000

Great collection. I feel like a lot of these are more of an example of tone mapping, and tone compression.
But a lot of good work anyways.