Mon, February 27th, 2006 by Miles
A new trend has been developing for HDR images on photoblogs...
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February 27th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Eeer ... What's HDR? Highdefinitionsomething?
February 27th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Great response, Sarah ---
February 27th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
heh, yeah, sorry, it's High Dynamic Range, where several images of a scene with different exposures are combined to make a single image with all areas 'correctly' exposed, an image that's impossible to expose with a single shot.
People seem to be using a plugin from here, http://www.hdrsoft.com
February 27th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Didn't Ansel Adams do this like... fifty years ago or something? The man was always ahead of his time...
February 28th, 2006 at 5:46 am
Aha! I've done that several times myself... hmm ... feeling very self-satisfied now
February 28th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Is that how it's done. I've seen a few images around the way that I was quite intrigued at the dynamic range, almost as though people where shooting in 48 bit, which I suppose they are in a way.
The images take on an almost painterly feel, photography has never been able to match the tonal range in the same way a painting can, it's looking like it can now.
The future is now.
February 28th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Miles: thanks for the mention. I've had a lot of fun producing the HDRs I've put up over the last few days and it's definitely a technique I'd recommend people try out.
March 2nd, 2006 at 3:35 pm
I have tried this technique and though I couldn't really control the proccess of the software the result was astonishing. On the other hand it might be like most of these visual effects, used too much for a small period of time and then be forgotten and out of fashion. Anyway I think HDR deserves a little attention as well as a little time and patience.
March 5th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
i think HDR is produces interesting results but I think that digital photography is so much more than that. I don't have an answer to what digital photography really will become but I think of HDR as one step above selective colorization.
June 14th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Hopefully in the not too far future camera sensors will have more "HDR" or dynamic range built in. I would love to have more control over shadows and highlights.