Comments on: 20 Amazing Examples of HDR Portraits

By: bruce

bruce — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:44:15 +0000

Seriously, as a landscape photographer who uses HDR sparingly to capture images when the light in the scene is well beyond the dynamic range of the sensor, this kinda half arsed “HDR” krap is really giving my work a bad name, and making all HDR work (truely Great HDR work) a lousey perception. Just because the image has 100% contrast between each black / white transition just means a filter was applied. To use HDR (which no JPG in the world is honestly an HDR, its just a Tone Mapped HDR file) for portrait work is silly to begin with. Every single one of these is a single image that was tone mapped at best.
You show me the .HDR file with 32 bits of data, then i will believe these are HDR’s.

By: pashik

pashik — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:55:08 +0000

this is totally WACK

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:45:38 +0000

I don’t care for about 1/2 of these. I don’t think it’s HDR necessarily but it’s the tendency to take subject matter seriously that doesn’t really warrant it. HDR isn’t helping in this regard.

By: Portrait Artist

Portrait Artist — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:28:54 +0000

Wow! How beautiful and surreal the colors are! The photos create a really strong impression. Thanks for this beautiful post!

By: arcataberry

arcataberry — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:17:59 +0000

thanks, Dee. i wrote a critical post saying they were just highly manipulated, heavily photoshopped or something and that the photog. had taken all the juice out of what could have been really good without the enhancements. i think my post got deleted. hmm.

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:31:02 +0000

None of these are HDR images. An HDR image is a composite of several photos of the same scene taken with bracketed exposures. The scene should have at least a 7 stop difference between the highlights and the shadows. This gives the image detail in both the highlights and shadows. These are just examples of very bad post processing. It’s nearly impossible to create an HDR portrait unless the person you are photographing can stay absolutely still for at least 30 seconds while you bracket exposures.

I mean I could be wrong about this. If the internet photographers say its an HDR it could be. I’m only a photography student who spent 3 months learning about HDR images.

By: arcataberry

arcataberry — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:48:40 +0000

Booooring. dark, gloomy, makes me feel like i’m peering into a huge blackhead and an oil spill. can you do anything with lighter emotions/subjects?

By: pesho

pesho — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:10:39 +0000

#3 is the most beautiful
thanks

By: boudarqa nabil

boudarqa nabil — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:13:44 +0000

j ador les photoes artistique

By: Flanker

Flanker — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:11:37 +0000

Why photographers feel the need to perform HDR hackery on images with as little as 2-3 stops of dynamic range is beyond me.

10+ stops? Yes. 2 stops? Absolutely no need at all.