Thank you for adding one of my photos.

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Very cool. These pieces represent the style well. I see some old faves and new faves too.

Thank you for including mine among them.

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HDR shots are great, but your going to get a lot of old school shooters that think they are pretty cheap

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Old-schooler signing in here.

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Of course your think "HDR" is the greatest invention in photography. It means you don't have to think about exposure. You just pull out your DSLR (that mommy probably paid for), take a handful of bracketed shots, and then murder the image in software. You use techniques originating with Paul Debevec to merge multiple exposures but most of you probably don't know who he is. Debevec's intent was to capture a "light probe" and use it for rendering synthetic scenes to produce more realistic lighting. Go look in some of the 3D rendering categories, many people are still using his light probes (I have too). But that's not what you guys do. No, you tone-map the HDR image into an LDR image, squashing all of the contrast out of the scene. In extreme cases (too much local contrast, too little global contrast), the result is garish and cartoonish.
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Ahem...
That being said, these are some of the better "HDR" photos I've seen. One is even in my favourites - I didn't realise it was "HDR" until later.

Contrast and darkness should not be feared.

@ Imroy:

I understand what you are saying and I also agree with some things, but you forgot an essential element: the fun of making the HDR photo's. Because HDR is very interesting because you can make very normal objects stand out in ways that you've never seen before. For instance the brick (the third photo). The brick was very boring when I saw it... But after I made a HDR photo of it, all the cool effects appeared. So that's the other side of HDR, you never know what will come out.

Greetings, Martyn.

yes. i do agree that HDR is a topic missed out here.
everyone shruggs and gives a lost look when HDR is mentioned.
thanks for posting this news to let others have more exposure to HDR.

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Nice HDR features, I think they represent quite well the technique, and thank you for mentioning the Club

I didn't realise that there was such a debate around HDR/tone mapping. My two cents would be; to use it as little as possible on an image, tone mapping that is. Hmmm...

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I just got CS3 i also downloaded photomatrix but i dont have a keycode for it yet. (need money) lol . which one is better . I will say i am finding it hard to use cs3. but i payed $700 for it. I dont have tone mapping with CS3. is there something i can do