Let's discuss!
What about this image? http://www.fotobyimran.com/index.php?showimage=137
i love the mood created by imran.
seems to work for me all the time.
but just a question (very noob qns actually).
What is this hierarchy of light?
tried to google it....landed me back to this thread....:bsmilie:
sorry, it is my own coined term, i should copyright it. :bsmilie:
i meant that everything in the picture should be AS YOU SAW IT, in terms of luminance. i have seen pictures where the foreground is brighter than the sun (because of hdr)..
What they're talking about is unmotivated lighting affecting the quality of the photo -- wow factor etc. With hdr techniques photographers can do all this without resorting to actually lighting a scene.
glad you like it..So night86mare has coined a new term which he will gleefully plaster all over CS' landscape photography for those HDR imageries. I kinda like that term. Sounds very hip. LOL!
Sry. I am also equally confuse by what you all mean that good photographers tend to keep hierarchy of light well.
Pls explain to me as I wish to know more about this thing.
What they're talking about is unmotivated lighting affecting the quality of the photo -- wow factor etc. With hdr techniques photographers can do all this without resorting to actually lighting a scene.
so that is what i call the hierarchy of light. the brightest point should remain the brighest point in the picture, and all the way down to the darkest point the order should be kept.
your terminology is alien to me.The conventional terminology for what you describe is that the luminance transfer function (characteristic curve) is monotonic. So-called local tone mapping operators use to reduce HDR image to lower DR output typically (possibly always, would have to think a bit more on the math) violate this assumption. In other words, the only acceptable manipulation to you is a global, monotonic tone-mapping operator, also known as "adjusting the curve".
your terminology is alien to me.
from what i gather, i'm not sure what you mean, but i think you're saying that hdr "compresses" the tonal range artificially. it matters not to me, so long as bright = bright, and dark = dark.