Monday, September 29, 2008
Photomatix Pro
So i just got Photomatix Pro 3 today. its really cool and easy to use. i only really had one image in my library that could work for a first test, and this is what i got. I had a little trouble with the hot spots where the reflection was but its only a test. If your into HDR I wold recommended this program.
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If you guys are into HDR, you should check out Dan Burkholder's images from Katrina!! He used up to 8 different exposures to make his HDRs. I wonder which program he used.
http://www.danburkholder.com/shadows/
Maybe I am getting old or something but for my taste the Katrina images look overdone and ugly. Please don't hand anything in for an assignment that looks like that. I think HDR works and looks best when you are not really sure if it is HDR.
i agree with Ian they looked more like a painting than a photograph. They were really interesting but are definitely in there own classification. I tend to like ones like These ones.
http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/hdr,skyline
I also agree with Ian on this one, and the ones Cam linked to are pretty good, some of those are even still a bit overdone, but not as much as Burkholder's. I do think there is some value in that style, but more as paintings than photos.
My issue is that it's presented as a documentary about the losses of Katrina, but all the attention is on the photo processing rather than an honest documentation of the disaster aftermath. I'd rather see the images presented as either a pure art form or a documentary but I'm not sure it works as both in this case. Big topic I suppose.
I agree with all of you, I have serious problems with all of Dan Burkholder's work. I saw him give a presentation this summer at the Maine Media Workshops and I was not impressed by his philosophy on photography. I posted that link to show the extremes of HDR. I am interested in that kind of HDR because its beyond the human eye, only a computer can render that image.
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