Friday, May 11, 2012
Jeff Stevensen: HDR - The Web’s Loudness War?
[Abandoned Tinsel Factory, Windsor Locks, Connecticut] Surely you’ve seen HDR photographs by now. HDR is an acronym for High Dynamic Range imaging. It’s a post-production technique in which one combines several different exposures of a subject into one final photo; the final photo has more detail in extreme highlights and extreme shadows than a conventional, single exposure can capture. HDR can be a lot of fun and initially exciting. Unfortunately, the most common “look” people are using with HDR is somewhere between surreal and cartoonish. Colors are screamingly over-saturated; dark “contrast clouds”...
