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[Donna Hudson]

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Donna,

Lovely.

How you do dat?

 

[StuartRae]

Hi Donna,

They look like images produced by some of the more extreme tone-mapping methods used by Dynamic Photo HDR. I have to say that I'm not a fan, although DPH does have some more pleasant methods which I sometimes use for landscapes.
I suppose that taken to these extremes the images may be considered as 'art', but I'm afraid they're too cartoon-like for my taste. Sorry. Just my opinion.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[Wayne Stratton]

I really like this and look forward to learning how it was done.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Hi Donna,

They look like images produced by some of the more extreme tone-mapping methods used by Dynamic Photo HDR. I have to say that I'm not a fan, although DPH does have some more pleasant methods which I sometimes use for landscapes.
I suppose that taken to these extremes the images may be considered as 'art', but I'm afraid they're too cartoon-like for my taste. Sorry. Just my opinion.

Regards,

Stuart

Stuart,

I'm fascinated by the immediate bimodal distribution of reactions: love it or definitely not! When this happens in a movie release, when half the test audience rave and the others hate it, then they have a good chance that the movie will be a hit.

This might be the dynamic. The artist goes after a segment that is likely to enjoy their work. Too often we try to please everyone.

Asher

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Hi Donna,

They look like images produced by some of the more extreme tone-mapping methods used by Dynamic Photo HDR. I have to say that I'm not a fan, although DPH does have some more pleasant methods which I sometimes use for landscapes.
I suppose that taken to these extremes the images may be considered as 'art', but I'm afraid they're too cartoon-like for my taste. Sorry. Just my opinion.

I agree with Stuart,

Personally I prefer HDR tonemapping to be barely visible, just a subtle taming of the dynamic range. On the other hand, I also don't want to discourage people from experimenting.

When taking a cross-section of HDR Tonemapping results, e.g. here, the 'over the top' or cartoonish style seems to have a large following, but I still prefer the more natural looking ones (nature is beautiful as it is).

Cheers,
Bart

 

[Asher Kelman]

Welcome Donna,

I'm empathetic with Stuart in loving real living things, but I also am open to unnatural ways of dismembering the smooth transitions natural and man made things can have.

This tone mapping can indeed be considered a gimmick. I am prepared to first look at the subject and find whether or not the effect used is related to the matter at hand. Does it organically help support the motif of the work?

So, could you tell us a little about your setup for this in turns of the context it should be seen in references it might have and how you have rationalized this. I'm open to new experience and look at a body of work and like to learn where people are coming from!

Thanks for sharing. I promise I will comment more in the next few days after I absorb more of the flakes of paint.

Asher

 

[Doug Kerr]

These are lovely works, and I admire and enjoy them just as I might admire a nice colored pencil sketch or watercolor. The result is beautiful, and I admire the skill of the artist (working through several stages to produce the result).

Some may object that they are not really "photography", or that they make "too extreme use" of postproduction manipulation, but I find those arguments overly esoteric for me. All our work here produces images that are not substitutes for an actual scene, and we enjoy many of them for many reasons. (We often even enjoy images that leave behind all the chromaticity of the scene, and did so for all photography for many decades.)

My only concern is that we not think that this is what "HDR" is about. It's nice that "HDR tools" can be exploited to do other kinds of work.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Asher Kelman]

Dismembered society!

These are lovely works, and I admire and enjoy them just as I might admire a nice colored pencil sketch or watercolor. The result is beautiful, and I admire the skill of the artist (working through several stages to produce the result).

Some may object that they are not really "photography", or that they make "too extreme use" of postproduction manipulation, but I find those arguments overly esoteric for me. All our work here produces images that are not substitutes for an actual scene, and we enjoy many of them for many reasons. (We often even enjoy images that leave behind all the chromaticity of the scene, and did so for all photography for many decades.)

My only concern is that we not think that this is what "HDR" is about. It's nice that "HDR tools" can be exploited to do other kinds of work.

Best regards,

Doug

I agree with Doug, let's go with instinct but finish with brain-power. Look at the subjects dismembered by the exaggerated process. This is almost post-apocolyptic.

Makes one think about our fragility. We're not there, we're the absent ghosts.

Asher