Badllarma
Senior Heliman
Location: North West UK
| Hi vrwired,
A typical RAW image has 5 stops of latitude so a image taken at F8 with decent software you should be able to take it from F4.5 to F14 "just". Depending on the original lighting conditions.
So you could get the following
F4.5, F5.0, F5.6, F6.3, F7.1, F8 F9, F10, F11, F13, F14 from your single RAW image.
HDRI will go from black (no image information) to white (all image information burnt out). I think with my Canon 20D that approx 20 - 22 images.
My point is using modern kit and software do you really need the huge latitude HDRI gives you for producing pretty normal/standard commercial photographs??
If of course your going into a specialist photographic art route or taking image for a specific commercial reason E.G a album cover of a up and coming rock band then of course HDRI is pretty cool tool to add to your digital tool box. But day to day I cannot really see the requirement.
And to answer your question I do think with some of the images on the link you could do them with standard RAW file and a bit of post in photoshop.
Also HDRI is one "complete" exposure meaning it contains the full band so there is really no such thing as different HDRI exposures as there all in there in the one image.
Some other points on this
Standard C41 print film has 3 stops of latitude.
E6 slide film has one stop of latitude 
And I still think HDRI just looks like a heavy bleach bypass look done by video/flim compositing software.
Or E6 process film put through a C41 process which in the trade was know as being F&*@ed  |
