The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Posted Mar 14, 2007 19:58 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux by kolloid
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Many HDR images look stupid, but that is true of nearly any photograph. HDR is a good tool in the hands of a good photographer.

Randomly selected example:

http://flickr.com/photos/darrenstone/419760365/

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The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Posted Mar 15, 2007 5:13 UTC (Thu) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

Hmm, I think even that one goes a bit over the taste line for me. There's something about the wide angle composition and bright flat cloud line that says "texture mapped" about the clouds to me.

I think it will take a while for people to establish a taste baseline in HDR. I really like the results my friend Dan produces, but they're not at all consistent. That is, he uses HDR in different ways for different purposes at different times. They're sometimes quite manipulated, and sometimes quite naturalistic, but I never get that "what videogame is this from" feeling.