Is Peter Lik's photography considered HDR?

Stealthy Ninja wrote: Who cares, so long as they look good.

Don't care, his work is awesome

What paper does he print on?

Prago wrote: What paper does he print on?

If I remember right it's a type of metallic paper.

Scotty wrote:
1. You need to learn the difference between bracketing shots and using software to bring out the extended range, and just doing good editing.

Research Luminosity masking, exposure blending, and Dodge/Burning. After you'll do this, you'll realize you aren't making sense in any way, shape or form.

2. He doesn't have to tell you anything. This isn't a trial, it's a photography fine art business.

You sound insane.

re:
1. You need to not assume you're the only one who understands these things by making such statements.

I am fully aware of these techniques and also the difference between single shot blends vs. multi shot blends, etc..JFYI

2. I'm responding to the question(s) Does He? or Doesn't He; I doubt seriously that he's going to login here and answer the questions - I am simply sharing what I was told from someone only one person removed from the source. As for being a trail????? Since when did lying to the public become OK in the photography fine art business?

"You sound insane" - well, you sound like a bully.

What can you tell me about Lik's printing process? Paper, mounting etc. You seem to have an inside scoop. I have a client I am making several large prints to hang in their cafe that want a lot of pop to the print.

Chansky wrote:

Scotty wrote:
1. You need to learn the difference between bracketing shots and using software to bring out the extended range, and just doing good editing.

Research Luminosity masking, exposure blending, and Dodge/Burning. After you'll do this, you'll realize you aren't making sense in any way, shape or form.

2. He doesn't have to tell you anything. This isn't a trial, it's a photography fine art business.

You sound insane.

re:
1. You need to not assume you're the only one who understands these things by making such statements.

I am fully aware of these techniques and also the difference between single shot blends vs. multi shot blends, etc..JFYI

2. I'm responding to the question(s) Does He? or Doesn't He; I doubt seriously that he's going to login here and answer the questions - I am simply sharing what I was told from someone only one person removed from the source. As for being a trail????? Since when did lying to the public become OK in the photography fine art business?

"You sound insane" - well, you sound like a bully.

Just saw this response. I forgot about it.

If you understand the process, you would understand why you're not making sense.

Saying he's a liar when you didn't talk to him, you talked to somebody that works with phase one (which isn't a part of his staff) is INSANE. You're calling him a fraud when he never claimed anything in the first place.

Call me a bully if you want for setting the facts straight from your baseless attacks on his character and business practices.

I have talked to him before. I've talked to his editors. Some of his shots would be IMPOSSIBLE TO DO WITH HDR because of slow shutter speeds and merging shots without ghosting. A lot of his shots were one shot exposures made on FILM.

Nothing you said makes sense, and attacking somebody's character and their business practices on this site is not promoted.

nalu wrote: What can you tell me about Lik's printing process? Paper, mounting etc. You seem to have an inside scoop. I have a client I am making several large prints to hang in their cafe that want a lot of pop to the print.

His printing costs him thousands. Unless you have somebody with a big pocket book, it's not really worth looking into.



Here's him talking about gear, photoshop, his million dollar printing setup with the silver based papers.

icepics wrote: Harder to tell how good a photographer is when the editing is that extensive.

I just look at the photograph.

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." -Ansel Adams (<---another "cheater")

It depends on what you consider to be HDR. HDR can be as simple as you cameras ability to see light. however, in the question that you are asking in reference to post process, yes in a form he does. I am sure that if you are a photographer worth your stuff, you know what lightroom is... he effectively moves his contrast up and his highlights down. this is the same technique i use on my photos. However Peter Lik and myself dont use lightroom. we use a similar but much more effective digital dark room titled Capture One. Currently they are in the 8th edition. but another thing that we both use that dramatically change the result of the image is a Phase One IQ280. This is a $150,000 set up (including all the lenses like mine includes) that is a digital medium format. however he also has at least 3 Nikon D800E's (assuming a 24mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4, 58mm f/1.4, 85mm f/1.4, and definitely a 50mm f/1.4, 14-24mm f/2.8, and 24-70mm f/2.8, also there could possibly be a 70-200mm f/2.8 in there somewhere but it would be rare that he uses it.), A Canon 1DX (definitely with a 70-200 f/2.8, and a 50mm f/1.2, possibly an 85 f/1.2 and maybe a few others) and a Linhoff Technorama 617III. As far as the film controversy and anti-edit, yes, he still shoots with film, that is what he shoots on the linhof, as a matter of fact, on his photo titled "Bamboo" he specifically used expired Kodak Ektar 100 film in his Linhof to achieve the unedited cyanish-green haze over the photo. No, he does not edit his film photos. If you have ever tried to edit film slides digitally, (especially 120mm slides), It is extremely, extremely hard. not to say that he does not correct for dust or defects and whatnot, but his film is particularly untouched. yes, he does edit his digitals, look at those blacks, they are darker than the night sky, and those colors are unachievable naturally, and you cant even make those colors in lightroom, capture one and phase one and nikon are both of our kings! you cant get saturation like that any other way. Hope this helps you. Lik and I have a very similar shooting style. I have studied lik for the last year to pin point his techniques and ive finally done it and have researched his videos to see what exactly he has in his bag. I saw his phase one for the first time on his new york video, i saw his nikon set up on his aviator video, i saw his canon set up on his volcano video, and i saw his linhof on his Yosemite video. not to say that he doesnt have other cool cameras, but this is his main use setup. he has rigs that are custom built for him for his shots that he takes under the Scripps Pier in La Jolla, i have perfectly replicated the effect of this rig by setting up 3 nikon d810's and rigging them all using tedious measurements and angles to get it just right and firing them all at the same time.
Right now, you can get Capture One Pro 8 for $300 at www.phaseone.com  

He creates his own paper, however you can get the same effect on Fuji Crystal Gloss.