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<blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 676257" data-attributes="member: 7240">Many of those images suffer from tone inversion, i.e. the mapping is so overdone shadows are now brighter than the highlights.Some people seem to think that if they happened to shoot a crappy uninteresting and boring picture, applying extreme tone mapping somehow makes it a great photo. These HDR folks are not alone though, the same trend is visible in B&amp;W images, sepia images, extreme filtering images like &quot;oil paintings&quot; and &quot;hipsters&quot; and &quot;holga-lookalikes&quot; and such.Reminds me of the thing when I worked some summers as a shop assistant, when I was a young boy. When the beef or pork or poultry was getting too ripe and green to be sold, the shopkeeper put the meats in a container, poured hot chili sauce over the meats and sold them as pre-seasoned bbq-ready delicacies. The strong red sauce covered the rot. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="pforsell, post: 676257, member: 7240"] Many of those images suffer from tone inversion, i.e. the mapping is so overdone shadows are now brighter than the highlights. Some people seem to think that if they happened to shoot a crappy uninteresting and boring picture, applying extreme tone mapping somehow makes it a great photo. These HDR folks are not alone though, the same trend is visible in B&W images, sepia images, extreme filtering images like "oil paintings" and "hipsters" and "holga-lookalikes" and such. Reminds me of the thing when I worked some summers as a shop assistant, when I was a young boy. When the beef or pork or poultry was getting too ripe and green to be sold, the shopkeeper put the meats in a container, poured hot chili sauce over the meats and sold them as pre-seasoned bbq-ready delicacies. The strong red sauce covered the rot. :p [/QUOTE]

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