I am sure many PDMLers would disagree with me. I might disagree myself. But I would like to suggest that one should look at this image differently: It is not a documentary/landscape photo. It is a different genre. It is probably not even just a photo (as a genre).
Quite often you can see some paintings in a similar "HDR"-like style. A good examples is the paintings of La Boca, the neighborhood of Buenos Aires where Tango started. People create images (based on photos) of that area in a similar style, see, e.g. here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_La_Boca_-_Caminito_-_200807i.jpg and here: http://goo.gl/ZhZVe The interesting thing to me is that almost nobody who responded on this thread has actually said what was wrong with the image in question. I guess the assumption is just because it is not natural. It is a philosophical question is whether the art has to be realistic. It reminds me how people had criticized the new, non-orthodox styles in fine arts (e.g. impressionists, abstractionists, etc.). :-) Cheers, Igor On 4/5/2012 7:21 PM, John Coyle wrote: > One of the worst examples of either HDR overdone or simple > over-saturation I've ever seen: > > <http://pinterest.com/pin/252905335294606972/> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
