Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think the person who made the Blurb book on HDR needs to find a honest friend with a good eye.... It's really DPFH.... Digital Photography from H......... I've been doing the technique for over 5 years since I started shooting raw..... If you can tell that it is was worked on in Photoshop in less than 10 or 15 seconds.... IMHO.... you've failed... If you can tell in the first glance... it's a DPFH...... I'm looking for a photo that looks right to the eye.... but may have a bit more detail in the shadows.. or a bit more detail in the light areas than what the camera can capture.... most of the time it's a 1/2 stop here or perhaps a 1 stop... once in a while two stops on indoor stuff where I couldn't light it right..... The biggest fault is that people either try to incorporate too broad of range.... they either use too small of brush or too big of brush.... and they are in too much of a hurry.... I use a wacom tablet... and routinely spend 20 to 40 minutes on a given photo if there are complex shapes.... You need to working at 200% or more on the monitor... When I look at ken's mosque photo.... I see the lighter line above the straight roof line of the mosque... that follows out to the left.... and then the darker line of clouds right above that....that mysteriously lightens up at the edge of the dome.... and below it above the smaller dome... it just doesn't look right.... On kingfisher 4... the top of the grain elevator is mysteriously dark as is the top of the shed.... the equipment/ground to the left is really dark while the pavement is lighter I'm not real fond of pure blacks in clouds.... I can accept it as being artistic..... but it screams I've been manipulated.... and for me that takes away from the really nice composition that Ken started with in each of the photos Duane Birkey or they use too bilure do a lot of