tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30636997.post4390975249643437936..comments2023-11-05T03:01:52.967-06:00Comments on just f8in around: Up through the atmosphereMark Mulliganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11262105659622379910noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30636997.post-70188894431118706222010-10-23T16:18:54.109-05:002010-10-23T16:18:54.109-05:00Oh get off your "photographic integrity"...Oh get off your "photographic integrity" high horse, Mulligan. You stitched together a photo that captured the feeling you experienced better than the camera could have. That's called impressionism. <br /><br />I'm being facetious, but I really do feel that the camera and the computer are just tools a photographer has available to him in order to create tone/feeling. And since you've been brought up from an in-camera background, I would say that you personally are not really in danger of using short-cuts. Good image-making is good image-making, and a trained eye can tell when something is done with care and when it is sloppy. I think as long as you continue to question the appropriate method, you're fine.<br /><br />Nice shot :)McGGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15152783927581441341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30636997.post-82878130578140716922010-10-02T00:33:03.323-05:002010-10-02T00:33:03.323-05:00Yeah, no kidding. So much of it is barf.
I think...Yeah, no kidding. So much of it is barf. <br /><br />I think HDR photography is like toupees. When they're over the top, they're super noticeable, and comically awful. When they're done well, they enhance one's image, and you don't even know they're there. <br /><br />There's definitely room for technology that will extend the dynamic range of digital photography, to keep highlights and shadows from collapsing into 255's and 0's. The problem is that when that range is somehow captured (multiple exposures, for example) then you have to display it. Just because you've got 10 stops of range in your HDR file doesn't magically mean you have the capacity of expressing those 10 stops on a screen or in print. Once someone invents HDR paper (or an HDR monitor that costs less than a toyota camry), I'll be more fully on board. <br /><br />After all, our own human eyes are super high dynamic range, so it's not as though HDR images are fundamentally fraudulent. If anything, they're _more_ faithful to how the scene "really looked" to the photographer, since the photographer didn't have to decide to see only the highlights or only the shadows.Rob Stronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14761105849790955206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30636997.post-68044318213016353792010-10-01T13:27:48.522-05:002010-10-01T13:27:48.522-05:00Rob, that's a pretty good question. Fred Ritch...Rob, that's a pretty good question. Fred Ritchen's blog (and I guess his book - which he mentions A LOT on his blog - no doubt for good reason) talks a lot about the possibilities for adding greater context for photos by embedding digital content that the reader can access on the photo. He argues that we could really increase our credibility by utilizing the digital technology to really let people in on the process.<br /><br />http://www.pixelpress.org/afterphotography/?s=digital+manipulation&searchsubmit=Search<br /><br />Also, the new issue of PDN has an article this month about HDR. I don't have much of an opinion on the ethics of HDR yet, mainly because I don't take it too seriously because all of the HDR photography I see is, well, to put it bluntly, over the top and sort of ugly and horrific and crazy and ridiculous. :) <br />See:<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyletucker95/4590423867/in/pool-hdr/<br />barfMark Mulliganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11262105659622379910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30636997.post-25633237418324716462010-09-30T23:09:51.538-05:002010-09-30T23:09:51.538-05:00Gorgeous. Super jealous. Great stitch job; I have ...Gorgeous. Super jealous. Great stitch job; I have no problem with an adequately footnoted panorama. <br /><br />Discussion topic: my phone now takes HDR images; it brackets 3 exposures in quick succession, and then uses the extra frames to recover highlight and shadow detail. All in one push of the button, automatically. When big cameras start to have that technology, does it still count as one "picture"? Will it need to be footnoted?Rob Stronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14761105849790955206noreply@blogger.com