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Daniel-Wales-Images In reply to davincipoppalag [2017-05-05 17:51:46 +0000 UTC]

Though I have dabbled in "artistic" faux HDR in the past just for a bit of fun, I actually agree with you entirely on this point.

Used correctly, HDR should really only be used to give a photograph the dynamic range that one's eye is capable of seeing. A camera that has no specific HDR function is incapable of capturing the same dynamic range as the human eye, meaning that a photographer can really only expose a photograph correctly if the tones are relatively even. A scene that has large areas of both shadows and highlights will mean that a photographer has to expose for one or the other, leaving parts of the photograph either under or overexposed depending on which you exposed for. HDR used properly will solve this problem because you merge multiple exposures. However, like you say, very often photographers miss the point, and make the image completely artificial. That's okay for a little bit of artistic experimentation, but I don't really like to see images like this used seriously.

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davincipoppalag In reply to Daniel-Wales-Images [2017-05-05 18:48:36 +0000 UTC]

yea

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