Calling all Photography nerds!

I remember my first camera (Rebel) came with the 18-55 and 55-250 as well. They are pretty good lenses for being kit lenses, especially the 18-55 from what I remember

 

I just visited Oneonta Gorge this past summer, one of the coolest water falls ive seen!

 

Nice place -nice shot!!

 

Lg g5. With snap seed app. Post work

 

I can see my house from here! Almost.

 

Fujifilm's 18-55 kit lens is the highest quality kit lens I've ever seen. f/2.8-4, metal construction, high quality sharp glass, etc. I shoot primes only, but was super impressed when I used someone else's last summer.

 

Went back out to the snow yet again.

 

What peak is that? ^

 

Mt. Hood in Oregon

 

hobbyist with sony a7. truck pic was my original love of a 98 that i had for 14 years. she died and was reborn as a 17 SR5 4x4. anybody who lives in Northern California and goes on photo taking camping trips...hit....me...up. i am down to clown.
1st pic- above Donner lake, two days ago. 2-same location, old train tunnel, 3-Romania, 4-Oregon, 5-New Orleans, 6-Thailand, 7-original love, nor cal FS road

 

step away from the HDR software

 

Funny, i used to play with that shit.
It'll get you nowhere.. lol
Kinda neat for the beginner

If you're not too extreme with it its not so bad but still.
These are a couple HDR's from waaaaaaay back..

 

At the risk of being pedantic the main issue is not so much HDR itself (i.e. capturing a bracket of exposures and combining them into an HDR file) but rather the heavy handed tone mapping that is often applied to create a LDR output from the HDR file. It has become known as the "HDR look" to have way too much local contrast and saturation but the reality is you can create that look with just a single exposure or you can avoid that look even when working with an HDR capture.

A few years back there weren't good ways to process an HDR capture without doing some sort of tone mapping step because "normal" editing software wouldn't natively support an HDR file. These days LR, ACR and PS all support HDR formats. All three also let you combine a bracket into a HDR file without forcing a tone mapping step. I find when dealing with a scene with very large dynamic range I get the best results doing a bracket, combing to HDR with LR and then just using LR controls to deal with compressing the dynamic range. Far more "natural" results than the typical HDR software tone mapping.

 

What he said...

Very knowledgeable.
With that said, just get the right gear and the knowledge of your cameras manual capabilities, a good eye and good post processing software and get out there!!

 

I dabble in photography, but do video professionally.

 

I mean sure it's a fair point but after I open with being a hobbyist who cares right?

 

HDR or "Bracketing" is sometimes useful...

 

@TacoSeattle that waterfall picture is amazing. great shot.