Fake HDR?

[Hope C.]

I found a photoshop tutorial online for "making a fake hdr effect," and decided to experiment with it some just to see what it could do. I rather like what it does, but I know to some who do real HDR it may be "offensive" or "out of line" to call it HDR. I'm wondering what you guys think about the concept.

Here's an album where I uploaded some of what I did, not sure if the link will work for you or not since it's facebook, but I'm hoping it will since it's not my personal FB, but my photography FB: www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=164280&id=173995745676&ref=mf There are "before and afters" on all of them.

Since I was at the college when I did this, I didn't have the original images and just copied them off my facebook albums, so some of them got a bit grainy because of the low quality.

[shp]

I don't know much about HDR but I do plan to practice them. But I actually liked your pictures, ^.^.

[Saknika]

I don't know how close it actually is to HDR (I understand things better after trying them myself lol), but I think it's a very nice effect on your images. I don't think it's quite true HDR though, based on what I've seen before. It's hard to say. Let Marian take a look at this, and I'm sure she'll know better since she has experience in creating HDR photographs.

[ScottWood]

While they are not really HDR by definition, they are still interesting shots. I think that the reason that they work is that none of the scenes that you made them of really needed to be HDR, so there was still a decent amount of information in all the sections of the image.

HDR really comes into play when it is impossible to keep details in the highlights and the shadows.