HDR (is it still needed)?

1 year 4 months ago #746314 by Wyrick Photography
HDR came out what 15 years ago?  Now cameras have a zillion stops of dynamic range, so as my title as asking, is HDR even still needed these days?

Canon 5d Mark II • Canon 24-105mm F/4.0 • Canon 135mm F/2.0 • Canon 50mm F/1.8 • Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 • Canon 580ex ii
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1 year 4 months ago #746359 by TCav
At an ISO of 100, your Canon EOS 5D Mark II has a dynamic range of 11.86Ev (not very good by today's standards), but at an ISO of 3200, the dynamic range drops to just 9.79Ev.

The human eye has a dynamic range of 30Ev.

Your call.


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1 year 4 months ago #746368 by miscat
The human eye is cheating though because it is looking around the scene and adjusting. The camera tries to catch it all with a single setting.


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1 year 4 months ago #746369 by miscat
I find I can get away with raw processing so long as there's as much light caught as possible without clipping. The low ISO that @TCav mentions.


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1 year 4 months ago #746398 by Kenta
Only HDR shots I have have been processed automatically from my iPhone.  


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1 year 4 months ago #746501 by Sassy Girl
Personally haven't done anything with HDR in years


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1 year 4 months ago #746504 by Razky
Was it ever actually NEEDED?


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1 year 4 months ago #746565 by Garbo
Yeah, haven't touched in years as well.  Kind of got burned out with HDR long time ago. 

Nikon D300: 24-70 2.8 | 70-200 2.8 VR |Sigma 150 2.8 | 50 1.4 | SB-800
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1 year 4 months ago #746632 by TCav
HDR works by increasing or decreasing the ISO selectively on different portions of a captured image.

So long as the resulting image noise isn't objectionable, where's the harm?


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1 year 4 months ago #746783 by Uplander
Wasn't the whole purpose of HDR back in the day because cameras couldn't capture the needed dynamic range?  If that being the case and considering how cameras have advanced in recent years, perhaps that's the argument why HDR isn't as needed as it once was? 


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1 year 4 months ago #746943 by Nancy Hait
Even when it was hot, I didn't do much with HDR, just wasn't my thing.  


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1 year 4 months ago #746950 by TCav

Uplander wrote: Wasn't the whole purpose of HDR back in the day because cameras couldn't capture the needed dynamic range?


FYI, they still can't.


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1 year 4 months ago #747116 by Wyrick Photography
Loud and clear!  

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