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/r/ any HDR pics in super hi rez
>> Anonymous
What's the point? They lose their HDR-ness as jpg, bmp, png, etc. HDR adds dynamic range that you are unable to see (or use) without an HDR viewer that allows you to explore the image at various exposures. So unless you actually post HDR images or the less popular Lucasfilm flavor, they just look like badly exposed shit and you can't use them for HDR lighting or anything.
>> Anonymous
various programs ie photoshop create composite images that better reflect the 'correct' colors, or you could post a paired image that has a standard photo and a color corrected photo.
233367
I can see what you mean, but I just learned about the application to photography, and how a single image can be improved through HDR
>> Anonymous
Well, you can "fake" HDR by using Photoshop to make different "exposures" of an image, and then use an app like Photomatix Pro to unite them as an HDR. The results still aren't as good as if you actually snapped different exposures, but then you do get some HDR benefits if you use them for lighting 3d scenes and so forth.

Maybe in the future our TVs and Monitors will have dynamic range (think really bright explosions and such), but right now it's hard to appreciate that extra information unless you use it to light something else.

If there are legitimate uses for HDR to improve photography, please paste a link so I might learn moar. Otherwise, I don't get the "how a single image can be improved through HDR" thing.

Unless it's just the Penthouse vaseline-on-the-lens look that HDR seems to have on regular monitors.
>> Anonymous
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to start with, the wiki demonstrates how tone-mapping can be used with the range of several single photos to make a composite photo with an exaggerated range. I don't really know much about it right now, but it seems to explain why i could never photograph that crazy shade of blue the ocean is but only when you see it with your own eyes. I found a few HDR enhanced pics, and I just thought the applications were cool. This one is a better example of something you could expect never to get taking just one snapshot
>> Anonymous
I also recently played Half-life: lost coast on my friends high end machine. it's basically a showcasing of the realtime HDR abilities of the source engine, the commentary shows what to look for, it's really impressive
>> Anonymous
I think this might be what you mean:
http://www.gregdowning.com/HDRI/tonemap/Reinhard/

It's not true HDR since it's reduced to 8-bit. I also understand the term tonemapping to be the process of combining multiple exposures as HDR, rather than the process of reducing 32- to 8-bit as this plugin does. I can see how the darker areas have been selectively lightened a bit.

Yes, you can see HDR in action in Half-Life 2 now as the light sources. In movies, they will take a 360 degree HDR pic of the environment in which they will add CG actors, then they will light the actors with the HDR so they much more exactly match the real world lighting conditions.
>> Anonymous
BTW, HDR Shop is free.
>> Anonymous
>>233391
>>Tower_Bridge_Sacramento
I thought I recognized that bridge!
>> Anonymous
ITT: Nerds argue about resolution of a fucking picture.
>> Anonymous
233420 not resolution, reVolution, in the technological field of rendering true-to-life color corrected digital representations of... nvr mnd your right
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Needs more like this