Hdr

[Madfronter]

I am no expert with Photography but I have been seeing a lot of HDR photography going on in the car scene lately. Has anyone been doing this with their reef shots? Just curious of the outcome. If you have some HDR shots please post them up.

 

[Madfronter]

Im pretty surprised that no one in this section has anything to say about HRD photography. Kinda disappointing.

 

[BlueCorn]

HDR doesn't work very well for moving objects and there's very little need for it when shooting corals.

HDR was developed to make up for the fact that the camera can only see about 6 stops of light. The human eye can see 12-16. Most of the "HDR" that you see today is more about creating an edgy effect than it is about the photo. Folks take a substandard image, tweak the heck out of it in Photomatix and then it's "cool." (not)

 

[reefman23]

Beerguy, did you mean to say that is doesN'T work very well for moving objects?

 

[BlueCorn]

lol - yeah

 

[Blownsvt]

HDR is awesome. A friend of mine does some great stuff with cars.

 

[Rhizo]

Im pretty surprised that no one in this section has anything to say about HRD photography. Kinda disappointing.

To add to Beerguy's comment... The thing about it is that 99.9% overuse it. In most cases colors are beyond over saturated, and definitely not the image that was taken.

I like to use it when a picture lacks some color detail. Other than that " the beyond this world colors " you see don't appeal me one bit. Just my take on it

 

[TWallace]

Like others have said, a lot of people overdo their HDR shots so that they look very unrealistic. I think this trend gives all HDR shooters a bad reputation. I usually try to make them look more natural while bringing out details that would otherwise be lost due to dim or bright lighting. Here are two that I like from Spain.

Very old mosque in southwest Spain in a small town. Believe it was built in the 11th or 12th centuries.

Looking straight up at a door frame in the Alcazar in Sevilla.

I haven't done HDR on my reef. I can see where it may be useful in coral photos where the top of the coral is very bright, but the lower branches are very dim.

 

[Rhizo]

@TW - Nice job! Its subtle :thumbsup:

 

[IPT]

SUbtle is the key. I happen to like the overtop ones too, but I see them as that and accept it for what it is. As stated I have seen some exceptional HDR work done where really you can't really tell because essentially it is just expanding the dynamic range of the image. It opens shadows and holds back what could have been blown out. There is a place for it I think, but also as stated moving subjects do not lend themselves well to that type of work.