Comments on: More playing with HDR http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/more-playing-with-hdr/ Nature photography, art, environment Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/more-playing-with-hdr/comment-page-1/#comment-19861 Mark Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:42:13 +0000 http://grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/more-playing-with-hdr/#comment-19861 Petra, I have pretty much come to similar conclusions with this image. I appreciate the honest and candid feedback. Of course, I am still new at HDR - and want it to simply come closer to my vision, which may take more practice with the controls available. Definitely say no to technical schnickshnack! :-) Petra,
I have pretty much come to similar conclusions with this image. I appreciate the honest and candid feedback. Of course, I am still new at HDR – and want it to simply come closer to my vision, which may take more practice with the controls available. Definitely say no to technical schnickshnack! :-)

]]> By: Petra Voegtle http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/more-playing-with-hdr/comment-page-1/#comment-19854 Petra Voegtle Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:14:33 +0000 http://grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/more-playing-with-hdr/#comment-19854 Hi Mark, while you asked for it: my personal take on this is that I do not like the HDR version at all - I rarely do - especially not for nature and wildlife photography. It is something completely different for abstracts and other art photography. The reason is that HDR in most cases looks completely unrealistic, even garish in my opinion and I feel if you want to catch a certain mood and emotion, a view that lasts only for a second HDR changes too much of it. Photography is all about catching the moment - at least regarding nature photography. In this very example when the light recedes, so do the colours of objects and especially plants. You would never see such green in a light such as this - remember the colours receding while diving. No-one would expect the grass and leaves to be that green. Also somehow the HDR flattens the whole image, structures become more detailed but strangely lose their depth. In this HDR photo exactly the opposite happens what painters try to achieve: depth. Unless the image is meant to be flat and 2-dimensional. I don't think that wildlife and landscape photography should take this path - this would be paradox. Doesn't landscape photography try to re-create the feeling you have when standing within a scenery that seems to go beyond horizon and the universe? The second photo is sadly reduced to its plane - that of 2 dimensions. I think HDR is well overestimated as it often happens with technical evolution. It should be used as a tool to play with but not taken as a recipe for good photos. We rely already too much on technical schnickschnack and should rather return to the essence. But that's only my humble opinion of an photographic amateur. Warmest regards, Petra Hi Mark,
while you asked for it: my personal take on this is that I do not like the HDR version at all – I rarely do – especially not for nature and wildlife photography. It is something completely different for abstracts and other art photography. The reason is that HDR in most cases looks completely unrealistic, even garish in my opinion and I feel if you want to catch a certain mood and emotion, a view that lasts only for a second HDR changes too much of it. Photography is all about catching the moment – at least regarding nature photography.
In this very example when the light recedes, so do the colours of objects and especially plants. You would never see such green in a light such as this – remember the colours receding while diving. No-one would expect the grass and leaves to be that green. Also somehow the HDR flattens the whole image, structures become more detailed but strangely lose their depth. In this HDR photo exactly the opposite happens what painters try to achieve: depth. Unless the image is meant to be flat and 2-dimensional. I don’t think that wildlife and landscape photography should take this path – this would be paradox. Doesn’t landscape photography try to re-create the feeling you have when standing within a scenery that seems to go beyond horizon and the universe?
The second photo is sadly reduced to its plane – that of 2 dimensions.
I think HDR is well overestimated as it often happens with technical evolution. It should be used as a tool to play with but not taken as a recipe for good photos. We rely already too much on technical schnickschnack and should rather return to the essence. But that’s only my humble opinion of an photographic amateur.

Warmest regards,
Petra

]]> By: Richard Wong http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/more-playing-with-hdr/comment-page-1/#comment-19795 Richard Wong Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:30:59 +0000 http://grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/more-playing-with-hdr/#comment-19795 One of the better examples of HDR that I have seen, Mark. The really sick type of HDR is when it looks like HDR. One of the better examples of HDR that I have seen, Mark. The really sick type of HDR is when it looks like HDR.

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