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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 2755" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>With some types of photos HDR works great, in others it can be awful. HDR will give you a grainy look. If one of the three exposures has some noise then the resulting merger can have a grainy look to it. How much "grain" will depend on the amount of noise introduced. I have found HDR works best with scenic type photos. Those pictures that are static in nature. Scenes that have subjects in motion can give very weird results when the three shots are merged. However even motion in an HDR works out OK or is even desirable. If you go to my Gallery and open up the "Double Rainbow" shot you will see three ducks flying near the rainbow. The shot is a three shot HDR and that is not three ducks. It's one duck I caught flying by at the time but the HDR caught it in three different positions. That's OK because it's not unusual to see ducks flying in formation like that. Now open up "The Power of Niagara Falls" shot. This is also an HDR shot where I wanted to emphasize the motion of the water and still get a lot of detail in the water highlights and the shadows in the rocks. </p><p></p><p>Speaking of grain, for more years than I want to count or admit to everyone wanted to get rid of, "that gritty look". Film manufacturers spent millions in research developing high speed film and chemical processing formulas that produced no grain. It was the Holy Grail of photography. Even in the very early days of digital the advanced amateur and professional photographers didn't want to use it because of the grain. How times have changed with technology. Today there are any number of presets in post processing, that have become popular, that will give you the "old time" grainy look of a number of different film types. Sorry guys I'm from the old school. Now a days you might say the very old school. I spent too many years of my life trying to get rid of the grain to find it acceptable or even desirable in my photos. You might say its been in-grained in me for too many years for me to change now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 2755, member: 654"] With some types of photos HDR works great, in others it can be awful. HDR will give you a grainy look. If one of the three exposures has some noise then the resulting merger can have a grainy look to it. How much "grain" will depend on the amount of noise introduced. I have found HDR works best with scenic type photos. Those pictures that are static in nature. Scenes that have subjects in motion can give very weird results when the three shots are merged. However even motion in an HDR works out OK or is even desirable. If you go to my Gallery and open up the "Double Rainbow" shot you will see three ducks flying near the rainbow. The shot is a three shot HDR and that is not three ducks. It's one duck I caught flying by at the time but the HDR caught it in three different positions. That's OK because it's not unusual to see ducks flying in formation like that. Now open up "The Power of Niagara Falls" shot. This is also an HDR shot where I wanted to emphasize the motion of the water and still get a lot of detail in the water highlights and the shadows in the rocks. Speaking of grain, for more years than I want to count or admit to everyone wanted to get rid of, "that gritty look". Film manufacturers spent millions in research developing high speed film and chemical processing formulas that produced no grain. It was the Holy Grail of photography. Even in the very early days of digital the advanced amateur and professional photographers didn't want to use it because of the grain. How times have changed with technology. Today there are any number of presets in post processing, that have become popular, that will give you the "old time" grainy look of a number of different film types. Sorry guys I'm from the old school. Now a days you might say the very old school. I spent too many years of my life trying to get rid of the grain to find it acceptable or even desirable in my photos. You might say its been in-grained in me for too many years for me to change now. [/QUOTE]
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