Re: Still playing with HDR

Pete D wrote:
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>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvermoon/2266292417/sizes/l/
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>>> A little bit more cloud would have been nice
>> And foreground interest.
>>
>> I'm sorry HDR will always look unreal and unnatural, use filters
instead 
>> or blend bracketed shots manually.
>>
>> Letting a pc decide on whats best doesn't work!
>>
>> You are the photographer YOU do the processing.
> 
> I think you are missing the point of HDR (bad name really) , it is a 
> technique used to get a particular end result, not to produce something
that 
> looks like what the photographer saw when he pressed the shutter. 
> 
> 

They're not mutually exclusive. HDR is just another tool in the toolbox.