Photography style Q?
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- bigtrick0
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er, no. those saying that it is not hdr are saying it for good reasons. here are mine:1. the many lights in the original shot suggests that the photographer is a practicing pro. pros generally don't use hdr, especially since they can control their dynamic range with the lights.
2. if the photographer did use hdr, he/she would have brought out the detail in the driver's seat and the driver's footwell, and recovered the highlights in the gauges in the center console. since this did not happen, i believe there was no hdr involved.
3. "bad" hdr would show up as weird intensity gradients and strange brightness relationships, which are not present here. "good" hdr would be used to recover highlight and shadow detail. but again, since the photographer has control of the lights in this shoot, "good" hdr would not have been necessary, presuming that the photographer has good attention to detail. i would say that this is moot, however, since i don't think the photographer had the time and/or skill to pull off a well-lit shot - evidenced by the many small reflections of his/her lights in the first photo and, the blown highlights and too-dark areas in the second photo.
steve, i am a photographer. it is my career. betelgeuse and vaxorcist are similarly qualified. it is my business, and presumably their business, to know what i am talking about - i wouldn't say it otherwise.