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What is HDR, anyway?

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sergioisidoro ◴[] No.43984729[source]
Just one other thing. In Analog you also have compensating developers, which will exhaust faster in darker areas (or lighter if you think in negative), and allow for lighter areas more time to develop and show, and hence some more control of the range. Same but to less degree with stand development which uses very low dilutions of the developer, and no agitation. So dodging and burning is not the only way to achieve higher dynamic range in analog photos.

About HDR on phones, I think they are the blight of photography. No more shadows and highlights. I find they are good at capturing family moments, but not as a creative tool.

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1. CarVac ◴[] No.43985064[source]
I wrote a raw processing app Filmulator that simulates stand development/compensating developers to give such an effect to digital photography.

I still use it myself but I need to redo the build system and release it with an updated LibRaw... not looking forward to that.