[HDRI] HDR on Flickr

[Blochi]

Thank you for this great resource.

I fought the same fight, not only in writing, but also in promoting  
and hosting Picturenaut (which is using your TMO). Associating HDR  
with a certain look tends to be a beginner's mistake, and it looks to  
me like the situation is improving. It really is less about the  
software, but rather about the judgement abilities of the user. After  
going crazy with surrealistic looks, more and more people seem to get  
into naturalistic tone reproduction. I monitored Flickr very closely  
by leeching the most popular "hdr"-tagged images every month. And  
there no doubt that things are improving. (see http://www.hdrlabs.com/gallery/hotlarger.php) 
. Now about half the images are bearable, 6 months ago it was all  
surrealistic/overdone looks. Education is the key to raise awareness,  
and many photographers actually do use HDR on a professional level now  
in real estate or fine art photography. Michael Freeman's book is also  
hitting this vein, very recommended read.


Cheers,
Christian Bloch


On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:42 AM, E. Reinhard wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> After lots of hard work on high dynamic range imaging, it is
> good to see that the general acceptance of this exciting
> technology is on the up, even with amateur and semi-professional
> photographers.
>
> There is only one thing that's been bothering me for quite a
> while now. In certain circles, especially on the Flickr website,
> folks are using tone reproduction operators not only for dynamic
> range reduction, but also to achieve a certain 'look'. The problem
> I have with this, is that there is now a seemingly large community
> that equates HDR with that specific look. This is wrong.
>
> In an attempt to explain what is going on here, I have developed
> a micro-site with some comparisons. It is strictly informal, and
> gives my personal take on where the photography community appears
> to have gone wrong. It is located here:
>
>  http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~reinhard/tm_comp/
>
> My aim was to write it such that it will be easy to understand for
> a non-technical audience.
>
> I hope that this will be useful to some.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
>
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