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By: Film versus Digital, the endless debate | poindexter, WHO?

Film versus Digital, the endless debate | poindexter, WHO? — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:10:12 +0000

[...] images to make a point rather than shed light on the truth. HDR exposures portray a beautiful world that doesn’t exist. An unattainable standard of beauty that can’t be met without computer enhancement fills our [...]

By: High Dynamic Range Photos from Japan

High Dynamic Range Photos from Japan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:49:53 +0000

[...] are some great HDR photos from Japan. High Dynamic Range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of [...]

By: okinawa

okinawa — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:24:50 +0000

Beautiful stuff, love it all!

By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » random links: january 26, 2007

malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » random links: january 26, 2007 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:31:23 +0000

[...] I’d never heard of High Dynamic Range photography before seeing these gorgeous photographs of various scenes in Japan. [...]

By: ectoplasmosis » Japanscapes

ectoplasmosis » Japanscapes — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:53:18 +0000

[...] HDR photography (the method used here) produces amazing work. Allowing a greater range of exposures to be represented in a single image with the intent to produce a photo most true to the actual scene, it often produces results that are at times haunting, breathtaking, or simply unbelievable. Japan is easily the city most ripe for this kind of photography, making an already futuristic landscape totally alien and amazing. JapanHDR [Pink Tentacle] [...]

By: Cloverfield at Sojian’s

Cloverfield at Sojian’s — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:57:38 +0000

[...] to do this as well. I also read about something called HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging. A link is here. Apparently they are made by taking pictures with different eV’s and combining them with a [...]

By: DogSolitude › HDR Photography

DogSolitude › HDR Photography — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:59:04 +0000

[...] Fantastic Japanscapes [...]

By: beats.at » » frische links

beats.at » » frische links — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:49:11 +0000

[...] Fantastic Japanscapes – anschauen, staunen. [...]

By: 2008 January 19

2008 January 19 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:45:05 +0000

[...] HDR photos (high dynamic range) from the HDR Japan pool – [via Link & The Japan HDR photo [...]

By: HDR Images Of Japan Are Beautiful, Stunning « Acts of Random Kindness…

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:42:35 +0000

[...] Fantastic Japanscapes [pinktentacle] [...]

By: Dave Bell

Dave Bell — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:27:02 +0000

It’s always going to look odd, because we don’t have an HDR display. Back in the days of film, you could get a good record of about 7 stops brightness range, and because the gamma curve wasn’t a straight line, some compressed detail at the extremes.

And then you had to match it to photographic paper which could show maybe 6 stops brightness at most. More gamma curve tweaking: it’s what the contrast grade of the paper, and the selection of the precise exposure for the print, were all about.

And you have to do some of the same with a computer monitor. The 8-bit brightness range of standard graphics is the same as 8 stops in photography, and there’s some of the same problem of the brightness range of the monitor. So here we are with HDR images, and somehow they have to be adjusted to look right on the equipment we use.

And “looking right” is always something of an artistic choice, whether in the digital world or in the traditional darkroom. And if the intent is to squeeze the brightness range onto a standard monitor, it’s going to look a bit off.

Me, I have a Weston meter, and I know how to use it.

By: Elephantastic » HDR FLICKR GALLERY

Elephantastic » HDR FLICKR GALLERY — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:32:44 +0000

[...] Here is a link for Japan’s HDR photo pool. [...]

By: HDR Photography Makes Japan Look Like CGI

HDR Photography Makes Japan Look Like CGI — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:23:12 +0000

[...] Tentacle has plucked some of the best Fantastic Japanscapes out of the Japan HDR Flickr Photo Pool for your enjoyment. Thanks to Scott Beale at Laughing Squid [...]