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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 778703" data-attributes="member: 48483"><p>I have expressed my opinion before that HDR is overused and really only needs to be done with some special circumstances. A scene with waves and potentially moving clouds will bring some fuzziness into the final image, just a matter of how much.</p><p></p><p>I had to go back to 2012 for a time when I purposely took an exposure bracketed set for HDR purposes of a scene with water. However it was a very still morning at this riverbank. This is really going back to a D80 body and Tamron 18-270 glass, so it's not a case where the sensor is even in the same league as a new DSLR body.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]371502[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That was the edit I gave it in 2012. 3 bracketed images put to an HDR filter. The clouds gained a bit of a blur to them and there was no real waves to begin with.</p><p></p><p>Now today I revisited the original Raw files. I just took the normal exposure and processed with a modern version of RawTherapee that was not available to me then. No HDR, I simply stretched the dynamic range of the single file. You can do this with the curves tool or in my case it was sliders for Shadows/Highlights. I did not really try to match the colors of the original with the white balance, but instead used my more recent taste. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]371501[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Now we have an even lighter shadow level and the clouds are more crisp. I cannot remember when I last used exposure bracketing at all, but it has been a lot of years. I still contend HDR is more fad and hype than tool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 778703, member: 48483"] I have expressed my opinion before that HDR is overused and really only needs to be done with some special circumstances. A scene with waves and potentially moving clouds will bring some fuzziness into the final image, just a matter of how much. I had to go back to 2012 for a time when I purposely took an exposure bracketed set for HDR purposes of a scene with water. However it was a very still morning at this riverbank. This is really going back to a D80 body and Tamron 18-270 glass, so it's not a case where the sensor is even in the same league as a new DSLR body. [ATTACH=CONFIG]371502._xfImport[/ATTACH] That was the edit I gave it in 2012. 3 bracketed images put to an HDR filter. The clouds gained a bit of a blur to them and there was no real waves to begin with. Now today I revisited the original Raw files. I just took the normal exposure and processed with a modern version of RawTherapee that was not available to me then. No HDR, I simply stretched the dynamic range of the single file. You can do this with the curves tool or in my case it was sliders for Shadows/Highlights. I did not really try to match the colors of the original with the white balance, but instead used my more recent taste. [ATTACH=CONFIG]371501._xfImport[/ATTACH] Now we have an even lighter shadow level and the clouds are more crisp. I cannot remember when I last used exposure bracketing at all, but it has been a lot of years. I still contend HDR is more fad and hype than tool. [/QUOTE]
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