HDR, do you like it?

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HDR (High Dynamic Range), it is here , there and everywhere these days. I listened to a PODcast (How very 2006 of me) by Jim M. Goldstein the other day where he interviewed Trey Ratcliff from www.stuckincustoms.com/ about his HDR work. It was a very interesting conversation, but I heard a figure of 80% of people like HDR, and it has sort of stuck in my head, like a splinter in my mind. Do that many people really like it?

Here is an example of HDR.

HDR example

That is a great example of what a normal shot looks like compared to the same scene in HDR. Thats not to extreme a version of HDR. Here is one that is.

Yuck truck

So my question to you good reader is, do you like HDR. Is it still photography, or has it crossed that blurry line into digital art?


3/52

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3/52, originally uploaded by norbography.

This shot won out in the vote from the last 2 days.

In the past 12 months I have turned into a collector of old cameras. Well, up until a couple of weeks ago when I offloaded about 13 of them.

I kept 6. This old Polaroid OneStep Plus is amongst the group I kept. The right film (SX-70) is bloody expensive, and even the cheaper 600 film still costs about $25 for a 10 pack, but I love the results. Every photo I take makes me fell like I have been transported back in time. Back to a time when I had unlimited energy, no worries and blonde hair.

Kwanon

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According to Mental Floss, Canon started out as Kwanon.

When Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory started developing Japan’s first-ever 35mm camera equipped with a focal plane shutter, the engineers dubbed the creation “Kwanon” after the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At this point the company’s logo even included the thousand-armed goddess.

Canon?

When the camera was ready to roll out worldwide in 1935, the company decided to tweak the name to “Canon” so it would be easier for international markets to accept.

Kwanon EOS 5D, sounds better to me. 🙂