Maybe that's what the photographer intended. I think it does well to accentuate the rider and the direct environment around him. The bike frame and the rider's arm is really popping out at me, and usually pictures like this don't do that but rather, focuses on the trick. Rider looks miniature!
There is no such thing really as "too much HDR". HDR is short for High Dynamic Range and it's a way of combining several identical photos with different exposures to create one image with detail in the shadows as well as the highlights. An HDR image contains information that goes beyond the normal dynamic range of the sensor in the camera. This is not an HDR image, this has probably just had the shadows lightened a bit and the highlights pulled a bit, maybe the saturation pushed a little. If you don't like it what you're probably really meaning to say is you don't like the lack of contrast in it, or you'd like the blacks to be darker. Personally I really like this one, it seems very close to the way we really see things. Except for a few halo's of course.
As a photographer I know this, and just didn't want to get into the highlight/shadow adjustment detail, I just used the term HDR instead. The problem here is that the darker portions, which lack information (the common issue with camera CMOS sensors being that the darker the recorded "color", the less there is information) have been lightened, and as there is not much information in these portions of the image, it looks artificial.
Also the CA on the wheel are pretty nasty to be observable at this image size.
But all in all, this is an amazing MTB trick, I'm not contesting that, just saying the pp could have been a bit more subtle, plus a flash directed on the rider could have helped.
Everybody's a critic. Pinkbike is a website based on RIDING, not photography. I don't understand why everyone always has to complain about a picture because it's not 100% to their liking. Who cares! Appreciate the riding, not the quality of the picture! Especially not down to the point that you are complaining about color enhancements.
SwintOrSlude the halo on the wheel isn't CA, it's an artifact that's created by the highlight and shadow adjustments in an area where there is a lot of contrast. It's too small of an image for me to personally be able to see any loss of detail in the shadows. You should try LR4, the new processing allows amazing control of whites blacks highlights and shadows.
bscar, settle down bud before you wet yourself. It's a tad too touched up for me but that superman seat grab is unreal. Oh and this picture screams instagram
bscar, you only contribute to it when you bitch and whine yourself about the people bitching and whining... get over it. Also it'd be tight to see this picture before all the touch ups just to see how different he really made it.
Hahaha, bscar, you're such an adorable clown. To the other riders who don't have their panties in a bunch over what people are saying about a picture on an internet site, here's another picture of the same jump and it looks like this one isn't edited as much but it could easily be the difference in light. www.pinkbike.com/photo/8063284
That setup looks insanely sick and huge looking through that album.
Stop complaining, and just admit its a super nice shot! Dont think that you guys can do it much better, you are complaining about small things like the sun is to bright and other shit. Who cares just stop whining!
Why complain on what people try to creat something nice, give them tips instead how they can improve instead of whining! I would not be so glad to see many comments that just say the pic sucks when you mabe worked your as of to get one nice shot like this!
it's a great IMAGE but a Super FAKE HDR.... High-dynamic-range (HDR) photos are generally achieved by capturing multiple photographs often using exposure bracketing, and then merging them into an HDR image Since this was just ONE image it makes it a SUPER FAKE HDR... :-)
You can't say a picture achieved by only one exposure is a "fake HDR photo". HDR says like you wrote high dymanic range and can be achieved in different ways. One is by using bracketing (like I do when I shoot interior/exterior for estate agents) or, by bring home highlights and shadows. The best way though is by bying a better camera with higher DR, ex. a Hasselblad. The picture has been processed to have high dynamic range, but how can it be fake? Bracketing was no choice (and will never be in sports where there's speed involved) and the choice stood between this or a silhouette picture and I choose to do it like this.
A real HDR image requires you to take 1 Photo, of the same Exact thing.... in several different exposures.... and then merging them into one HDR image.... taking "1" photo and having fun in photoshop, lightroom, does not make this a REAL HDR... i know you did not multiple expose this image because the Rider did not Sit in the Air doing a Superman while you took multiple exposures.... Sorry, but i call it how i see it... it's a nice image WITHOUT the fake hdr!
If you all want to get technical about it, its actually a Tone Mapped HDR image. The HDR comes from layering the exposures and the colours/effect come from the Tone Mapping. Whining, and technical jargon aside, for me the effect is overdone. To each his own!
96 Comments
This is not an HDR image, this has probably just had the shadows lightened a bit and the highlights pulled a bit, maybe the saturation pushed a little.
If you don't like it what you're probably really meaning to say is you don't like the lack of contrast in it, or you'd like the blacks to be darker.
Personally I really like this one, it seems very close to the way we really see things. Except for a few halo's of course.
Also the CA on the wheel are pretty nasty to be observable at this image size.
But all in all, this is an amazing MTB trick, I'm not contesting that, just saying the pp could have been a bit more subtle, plus a flash directed on the rider could have helped.
But sick trick.
That setup looks insanely sick and huge looking through that album.
"I suck"
www.pinkbike.com/photo/8063284
so big:>
www.pinkbike.com/photo/8063284
Post a Comment