--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@> > wrote: > > > > I have no horse in this race, but the quickest of Google > > searches does turn up evidence that Niebrugge uses HDR: > <snip> > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > > > > > Ahem. The photo in question is by Ron Niebrugge, an > > > > > > Alaskan nature photographer who does not use HDR, > > > > > > merely a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III and natural light- > > > > > > ing, with no post-processing Photoshop work. He's > > > > > > famous for it. > > Hasn't been "famous for" not using HDR since at least as > long ago as 2004. He no longer uses Photoshop to do the > blending, but that's what he started out with. > > Post dated November 16, 2006: > > "I first experimented with HDR photography a couple of years > ago when it was included in PhotoShop, but was always > disappointed with the results....Well it turns out there have > been great strides made in the software now available for HDR > and some do a far better job then PhotoShop. > > "The software I have been using is called Photomatix Pro.... > It does a great job far better than PhotoShop. At $99, > Photomatix Pro isn't cheap, but...for someone like me who has > spent hours trying to blend images of different exposures by > hand in PhotoShop, without success, $99 seems like a bargain!"
And the above is written by Niebrugge himself ! Just shows that the Turqo has made a fool of himself yet again :-)