Thanks for the re-post of the link. Be aware that I bookmarked that
link and promptly forgot it. I think I'll remember it now.
Chuck Norcutt
Garth Wood wrote:
> usher99@xxxxxxx (Mike) wrote:
>> Hi Chuck,
>>
>> A bit of an aside, though ran into a series of photos using this
>> software to extend dynamic range.
>>
>> Likely not necessary for scanned negatives, and have seen even .jpgs
>> manipulated in PS to accomplish a similar task. It looks fast though.
>>
>>
>> http://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html
>>
>> Saw some nice images with it on a Zoto site, though many have a
>> surrealistic overdone look, IMO. Wonder what you or anyone thinks
>> about it. They do compare it to some PS manipulations, though they do
>> not use the more elegant processing of many list members to fix these
>> problems.
>> In any event, thought you might find it interesting.
>
>
> **SIGH**
>
> Well, looks like it's time to remind the Assembled Ones of a link I
> first posted about a year ago, to what I believe is *the* definitive
> article on High Dynamic Range, by my close friend Royce Howland, one of
> the moderators over at Naturescapes.net:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/e5dqp
>
> Read it, know it, live it. You'll be enlightened. And you'll stop
> accusing HDR of producing "surrealistic overdone" images (it's a
> particular misapplication of *tone-mapping*, which is a way of
> [mis-]using the additional dynamic range info in HDR-capable images).
> Yes, AG, I especially mean *you*. ;-)
>
>
> Garth
>
> P.S.: Royce just showed me a B&W photo he took of a Greek Orthodox
> church he ran across on our trip to Crete a couple of months ago. I was
> blown away by the HDR processing he did. It's quite capable of fixing
> those little detail problems in the toe and shoulder areas of a digital
> B&W image.
>
> Now all we need to do is to get the manufacturers to create a camera
> that does in-camera HDR capture, so the technique won't be limited to
> [relatively] stationary objects/landscapes. Hello, Olympus?
>
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