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A Rant and a Poll

Vote for as many of these options as you want:

  • I like obviously tone-mapped images

    Votes: 2 4.3%

  • I like obviously over-saturated color images

    Votes: 3 6.5%

  • I like more traditional Monochrome images

    Votes: 32 69.6%

  • I like more traditionally balanced Color images

    Votes: 34 73.9%

  • I like the other extreme; obviously muted, low saturation color images

    Votes: 12 26.1%

  • I like all photographic images, so anything goes

    Votes: 9 19.6%
  • Total voters
    46
ustein

ustein

Contributing Editor
Jack Flesher said:
It's the part of the process that gives HDR blends those garish shadows and halos. (Okay, flame suit on!)
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Not really. Any curve is Tone Mapping (you map tones from source to target. Any Dodge&Burn is tonemapping.

That said tonemapping gets more complicated if you map a high dynamic range image to a lower dynamic range. Curves cannot handle that well enough. There needs to be a local contrast component and this can introduce halos (wanted or not).

Dan Burkholder made amazing photos using extreme tonemapping. This is an ultra grunged photo and sorry I like it :) .

 
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