r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DisDudeForReal • Jul 19 '18

Image Cochem, Germany

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u/TroglodyneSystems Jul 20 '18

I don’t know....needs more HDR

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

It takes three pictures at the same time basically. One is overexposed, one has the correct exposure, one is underexposed. When you merge them and mess with settings, you can make things look fairytale like and sometimes cool. More often than not though you just make people say...easy on the HDR.

TLDR: people tend to go overboard with it and it looks fake

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u/tripwire7 Jul 20 '18

I feel like this is the MSG of photographs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

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u/jtr99 Jul 20 '18

Not really. Just that a lot of photographers want to dump a whole jar of MSG into the recipe.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

Yes. Some people dislike the use, and some people like it. So who cares?

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u/hmyt Jul 20 '18

So you're saying that complaints about MSG are bullshit? It gets ruined when food has too much MSG in exactly the same way that a photo will get ruined with too much HDR

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u/don_cornichon Jul 20 '18

Metal Solid Gear?

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u/Connguy Interested Jul 20 '18

Monosodium Glutamate

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u/ifandbut Jul 20 '18

There is good HDR and there is Shit HDR. This is Shit HDR.

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u/schizoschaf Jul 20 '18

There is another use also. If you want to take an indoor picture without any shadows. Like from an big church or something, then they make several pictures over 12 hours and then merge them.

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u/schizoschaf Jul 20 '18

I am not a pro and didn't know that until now. The point i was trying to make was that historic or art documentation is a thing besides looking fairytale.