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Some Street Photography at Easton Farmer's Market
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 334565" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>It's going to sound like splitting hairs if I dig down and explain my, "No, it can't", answer, so I'll just state that an HDR program can likely produce <em>something similar</em> to what I've done here, but I suspect not with the same level of control and purpose. </p><p></p><p>What I've done is to create a luminance mask, applying a high degree of structure <em>to the mask</em>, not to the photo. I've also purposefully shifted the luminance by focusing on a single color filter value that thereby adjusted the relative luminance of other colors within the spectrum based on their relationship to that color. I use HDR Efex Pro 2, and while I would likely be able to use control points to do some of that work, I could not specifically ask it to replicate this feel, even though it contains many of the same controls as Silver Efex Pro 2. The reason I stress the <em>mask</em> in that first sentence is that HDR programs would look to build structure into the photo itself, which can introduce levels of light noise that would not be evident in my method. Noise is created, but it's created in the mask and it would look different.</p><p></p><p>Look, any program that allows you to play with clarity and structure would allow you to mimic the look and feel of these photos. But were we to start with the same image I suspect it would be difficult to match the end result. That's neither good nor bad, and I don't say it in order to extol the virtues of my methodology, such as it is. <em>Getting an HDR look</em> is something that can be very appealing to some, and obviously my work in this series bears a resemblance to that <em>look</em> though that was never my intention - or my immediate perception after completing the first set of images. That the <em>HDR look</em> seems to have more to do with high structure and texture and less to do with balancing dynamic range (to some at least) is a bit of a shame. I have seen my lifetime's fill of over structured skies on what should otherwise be an amazing HDR landscape. I've had to tell myself time and again when using it to, "Just step away from the structure control!!" To me HDR is about the tone mapping of the light and little else. The rest is just editing.</p><p></p><p>So, to answer your question again, "Yes, you can use Photomatix to add these 'effects'. But no, you can't necessarily use it to tone map the way I did."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 334565, member: 9240"] It's going to sound like splitting hairs if I dig down and explain my, "No, it can't", answer, so I'll just state that an HDR program can likely produce [I]something similar[/I] to what I've done here, but I suspect not with the same level of control and purpose. What I've done is to create a luminance mask, applying a high degree of structure [I]to the mask[/I], not to the photo. I've also purposefully shifted the luminance by focusing on a single color filter value that thereby adjusted the relative luminance of other colors within the spectrum based on their relationship to that color. I use HDR Efex Pro 2, and while I would likely be able to use control points to do some of that work, I could not specifically ask it to replicate this feel, even though it contains many of the same controls as Silver Efex Pro 2. The reason I stress the [I]mask[/I] in that first sentence is that HDR programs would look to build structure into the photo itself, which can introduce levels of light noise that would not be evident in my method. Noise is created, but it's created in the mask and it would look different. Look, any program that allows you to play with clarity and structure would allow you to mimic the look and feel of these photos. But were we to start with the same image I suspect it would be difficult to match the end result. That's neither good nor bad, and I don't say it in order to extol the virtues of my methodology, such as it is. [I]Getting an HDR look[/I] is something that can be very appealing to some, and obviously my work in this series bears a resemblance to that [I]look[/I] though that was never my intention - or my immediate perception after completing the first set of images. That the [I]HDR look[/I] seems to have more to do with high structure and texture and less to do with balancing dynamic range (to some at least) is a bit of a shame. I have seen my lifetime's fill of over structured skies on what should otherwise be an amazing HDR landscape. I've had to tell myself time and again when using it to, "Just step away from the structure control!!" To me HDR is about the tone mapping of the light and little else. The rest is just editing. So, to answer your question again, "Yes, you can use Photomatix to add these 'effects'. But no, you can't necessarily use it to tone map the way I did." [/QUOTE]
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