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04/28/2011 02:28:23 PM · #1

looking at the front page of the web Seattle Times it appears the picture of the Alabama tornado aftermath uses either tonemapping or HDR. I haven't personally seen a lot of this in the news and wonder if it's part of a shift in photojournalism processing?

Bear_Music

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04/28/2011 02:51:14 PM · #2

Looks like simple Golden Hour light to me...

R.

K3Master

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04/28/2011 03:03:57 PM · #3

Hockey photographers have been getting really familiar with HDR, especially in The Hockey News.

karmat

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04/28/2011 03:09:19 PM · #4

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Looks like simple Golden Hour light to me...

R.

that's what i thought, too. the other day we had an afternoon thunderstorm, and when everything cleared, it was "golden" like this.

04/28/2011 04:21:45 PM · #5

Oh dang, the photo changed. I thought the dynamic range was pretty high and that there was an awful lot of detail in the bricks of the wall for keeping detail in the bright sky.

Now I have to find the photo again...

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04/28/2011 04:36:44 PM · #6

Here it is again. Looks like it's by Todd Sherman of the AP. Maybe it's golden hour. I still think the range is pretty high.

bohemka

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04/28/2011 04:41:56 PM · #7

Plenty blown out. Range is impressive but it's generally bad enough that I hope he didn't take time to edit it. May have done tone mapping during RAW conversion.

crowis

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04/28/2011 04:45:18 PM · #8

Looks like he was playing with tonemapping more than HDR. . . Still, its nice to see our photo journalistic brethren getting into the "make it look pretty" game...as long as they don't transfer those skills to mugshots. For crying out loud the last thing we need is a bunch of scarless/freckleless/glowing skinned arrestees hitting the newspaper. LOL.

MattO

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04/28/2011 04:59:43 PM · #9

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Here it is again. Looks like it's by Todd Sherman of the AP. Maybe it's golden hour. I still think the range is pretty high.

That is normal dynamic range for a Nikon camera...

alohadave

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04/28/2011 08:12:05 PM · #10

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Here it is again. Looks like it's by Todd Sherman of the AP. Maybe it's golden hour. I still think the range is pretty high.

It's storm light. Some people go out looking for these lighting conditions.

alanfreed

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04/28/2011 08:43:30 PM · #11

Personally, I'd be very surprised if the AP allowed the use of HDR in photojournalistic shots, and I'd be even more surprised to see photographers doing it. There is ethical debate about whether HDR should be allowed in such shots... and with immediacy being such a key component of this field of work, I can't see photographers being able to take the time to do it.

The shots quoted in this thread honestly don't look HDR to me...

Message edited by author 2011-04-28 20:44:00.