Oh, wow. Amazing shot of my favorite creature.

Very cool

Wow! Nice! Beautiful!

Awesome dude. Love it

i'm ambivalent. i'm not sure HDR does it for me. wouldn't you be able to make an ordinary greyscale image of the coyote just as beautiful and intense?

hmmm... perhaps not because you're not pixels of different exposure levels.

maybe i'm just closed-minded about what photography should be. :) it looks too constructed to me. sure it "pops", but it doesn't look "real" the way my eyes would see it IRL. old school photography has its own charm even if it can never accurately capture the intensity of reality. but then that's why you have the option to put the camera down and "record" memories instead, truly in HDR. :)

or maybe i'll get used to HDR soon and forget i ever thought this about it.

Yep, HDR looks too artificial and that's one of the reasons I don't do it. This time though, it was just an experiment and I can say that not many (any?) of my future photographs are going in that direction. :-)

Add me to the nay-sayers Y. The picture looks...too artificial to me. Both b&w and colour. If I hadn't read what you wrote, I would have thought it was one of your paintings/sketches.

But...I suppose this is what the papyrus users said when paper was invented! :)

Yep, HDR looks too artificial and that's one of the reasons I don't do it. This time though, it was just an experiment and I can say that not many (any?) of my future photographs are going in that direction. :-)

I have to disagree.
Tastefully done, an HDR looks just as beautiful as our eyes would have looked at, sometimes even better. Our eyes/brain focus on highlights/shadows much more vividly,unlike a camera that sees everything as a pixel value.
I'm not an expert, but I can tell the difference ...



That said, Not every image is a candidate for HDR, one needs a minimum of three AEB pics and at least an hour worth of time with post-processing. So yes, its not for everyone. HDR pictures also tend to be noisy and require quite a bit of investment both in learning as well as software $$$ to actually be "stunning"

I was almost expecting to see this comment from you! ;)

Ah! you made a post to incite me?
:-) Now, I feel so "special"

well, I was telling my brother about HDR and since I hadn't tried it myself I thought I should try - though I like the intensity in this picture, I prefer more natural photographs for some reason. :-)