That was a big sigh. Not maligning the whole technique, though one
gallery in Zoto of a couple dozen images using the software I
referenced featured many overcooked results, IMO. Any technique can be
misapplied. Thanks for re-posting the link; hopefully will be able to
study it this weekend sometime. I missed it the first time.
A grateful member of the Assembled Ones,
Mike
**SIGH**
Well, looks like it's time to remind the Assembled Ones of a link I
first posted about a year ago, to what I believe is *the* definitive
article on High Dynamic Range, by my close friend Royce Howland, one of
the moderators over at Naturescapes.net:
http://tinyurl.com/e5dqp
Read it, know it, live it. You'll be enlightened. And you'll stop
accusing HDR of producing "surrealistic overdone" images (it's a
particular misapplication of *tone-mapping*, which is a way of
[mis-]using the additional dynamic range info in HDR-capable images).
Yes, AG, I especially mean *you*. ;-)
Garth
P.S.: Royce just showed me a B&W photo he took of a Greek Orthodox
church he ran across on our trip to Crete a couple of months ago. I
was
blown away by the HDR processing he did. It's quite capable of fixing
those little detail problems in the toe and shoulder areas of a digital
B&W image.
Now all we need to do is to get the manufacturers to create a camera
that does in-camera HDR capture, so the technique won't be limited to
[relatively] stationary objects/landscapes. Hello, Olympus?
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