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Re:Photography for Geeks by excite1997 on Sunday November 27, 2022 @09:14PM (#33769109)
In the mid-2000s, HDR was all about jacking up local contrast, giving you that unique look of gritty skin and halos cropping up all over the place. I'm talking stuff like this:

https://digital-photography-school.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

Less obnoxious tone mapping that compresses shadows and highlights is a more modern trend, I'd say post-2012. It's basically done by every cell phone today when shooting a high-contrast scene.

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Re:Photography for Geeks by Terretta on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:41AM (#33774936)
> It's basically done by every cell phone today

Yeah, it's a problem. I shoot iPhone in RAW to back that off, or Halide RAW if it really ticks me off.

// Disclosure: Like most everyone, my top community ranked Flickr photos were heavily HDR'd, such as this one that hit #1 on Explore on 2006-08-17: https://live.staticflickr.com/60/216486412_0e3542fb85_k.jpg

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Re:Photography for Geeks by daveslash on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:26PM (#33777434)
I thought those types of shots were "woah, cool!" when I first saw them. But they got old and overused fast. I'm so glad those days are (mostly) behind us. It's interesting to me how that came and went as a photography "fad" in less than a decade.
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