Your use of HDR is sloppy and makes your photographs look like unnatural and blurry.

DCP, you are sloppy and I hate you.

DCP,go take a vacation…. in Southern Iraq.You are a douche.

i dont know much of High definition shooting but i must say tehre are alot good ones between them he will be better at the time anyway guys everyone was a starter needed to get the right angle and technique

I dont see nothing wrong , beutiful shots. I just wished you had label them please what is the city scene the one where it looks like it in a valley oh heck just name them all LOL LOVE IT ALL !!!

nice collections
love to see that

Some people just cant take critisism. Souriously, those pictures look like you are abusing photoshop filters. The church and the tree look like they are from a videogame.

but, hey, call it a “bad comment”, if it makes you happy…

Some of these photos look incredible; others look like incredible screenshots from games. Either way , I like the look. I wish I had the kind of time, money, and talent needed to take these kinds of pictures :/.

photography is a form of art with that being said who gives a fuck if they don’t look realistic in my personal opinion they are great looking images nice job

nice

Wow. Those are AMAZING!!

I think the reason HDR photos look so “fake” is that they defy what we think a photograph should look like. A color slide film will give you like 5 stops total of exposure… Ansel Adams was able to get 10 stops out of black and white film, with special processing and tons of dodging and burning and even modifying his negatives with pencil. He basically created the idea of HDR.. but I digress. The human eye is used to seeing things naturally like HDR because it can adapt to the lighting of whatever it’s focused on seamlessly, so that we don’t notice the variance in contrast. Psychologically, we’re used to photographs having a very compressed dynamic range, though our eyes can see much more. We come to assume that, for a photo to look natural, it must have that contrast, otherwise it would look cartoonish. Every scene we see with our eyes takes up our entire view (duh), but a photograph takes up but a fraction of the total view, so our eyes aren’t adapting to various parts of it. While the effect may look cartoonish, who are we to say it’s crap or unpure photography? Yes, it may look like it’s computer generated, but in a way it is. The Chicago school of photography put out some very interesting abstract photographic ideas… Man Ray, etc… and even RIT with Minor White (who taught Jerry Uelsmann, yet another person many people may have initially disregarded as “crap” because it looked fake…) Yet Uelsmann’s the king of post-visualization… and these photos are a combination of both pre- and post-visualization. What a novel concept.. HDR introduces yet another possibility into photography. And yet some dismiss it as crap because it looks fake. I’m not personally very good at HDR.. I’ve tried it, and I get frustrated every time.
Who cares what the colors and contrast look like, though? The compositions are solid, I think. The Chicago one is alright. I think it only got a high rating because of what it is. I feel that it’s slightly cluttered and hard to read; but the others are pretty solid.

But that’s just my two cents (and a penny for my thoughts… somebody’s making a penny somewhere..)

I love your photography. It looks like something out of a dream. Really creative.

I really cant see why some folks have to be very aggressive in there dislike of this work with words like “I hate you” thats just childish and daft. So some may say that the skills are sloppy, maybe… I neither know nor care and I don’t think that he work suffers as a result, for what its worth I like that fact the images look un natural and that they look like they could possibly have come from a game, and perhaps that ,makes them more relevant and interesting then taking the well trodden path. Personally I really enjoyed the images and hope you don’t change your style. Cracking work…

Very nice work. It may look fake as the above comments mention, but that should not be negative. The creativity is the main point here and the author did a great job. I say congratulations !

wow. those pictures are truely beautiful. they make reality seem like a fantasy

Honestly love your technique, very good use of your brushes and filters. The shots magnificent! I got to say the cathedral by far my favorite those vitreux is like they r evrywhere very nice work you set the right mood for a complete barroque experience! My biggest and honest admiration.

nice photos
nice work

guy

As Odilion Redon once said…”Artist’s who approach perfection do not have many ideas.” Anyone can go “there” and take a picture. It takes an artist and an artist’s eye, and even more, an artist’s mind to make a work of art. Like my dorm prefect at RISD said a decade ago…”Don’t worry Honey. All art is subjective.” I say Bravo for marching to the beat of your own drummer.

samatha

ps-not to be petty “Lloyd” but shouldn’t it be “Why is everyONE’s english (expressed) so badLY? lol ) cheers

Kudos for taking the time: for those who make negative comments, I’m sorry you feel such negativity to be necessary, perhaps you could suggest better ways? Show us your work?

For your efforts, I commend you to put it in a public forum. I find the shots inspiring. Great work and keep it up and show us more!

Nice work. Please don’t correct your technique.

I don’t really understand why people are flamed for giving ‘negative’ comments. Your opinion is, well, your opinion. I for one can’t stand the look of these. So kill me. I just don’t like the blurry, overly colorized look. I tend to agree with one of the other posters, to the effect that they look like video game stills or photos that were incredibly stylized by cheesy photoshop filters.

That being said this guy has talent for being able to do this in the first place. While I don’t like it, I’ve never been able to demystify HDR images and for that I gotta give some KUDOS! I do think this photographer will get better with the technique as time goes on, but if he doesn’t want to and is perfectly happy with the way they are then so be it. That’s his decision.

I would only hope that the photographer would take some of the criticism to heart, and try things different next time. Perhaps tone down the dramatic colors to lose some of that fake photoshop look. I don’t think you have to go for Ansel Adams realistic work, but if you tone things down a bit I think all the photos could be stronger and benefit from it. It’s sort of the same technique with film. Some of the best effects in film are the subtleties one overlooks.

I do agree that if you are going to speak negative or speak your mind, you should at least give some constructive criticism. I hope I did.

photos are shit hot wish i had been there to take them don’t stop you will only get better

Hi, I could only see two of the pictures since the others are on Flikr, which is blocked in China. I loved those two pics very much and wish you could use a non-blocked site so I and the other 500million online people here can enjoy them as well.

These looks really, really good. I don’t care what DCP thinks, and yes, they do surreal, but that’s what they’re aiming for!

Great pictures, I can’t get enough of those city HDR shots.

Well, I’m not a photographer and I don’t know what the hell HDR is and really don’t care. I will tell you this: when I stumbled upon this site I really thought it was great art work and probably would have never guessed it was photography until I looked at the heading and the comments. I think your photos are fantastic, especially the one of the city (I suspect Chicago) where it looks like the city is in Hell and the one in Asia where it looks like the clouds are taking the shape of the tower. It’s beautiful. You make me want to be a photographer. Glad you’re man enough to take my constructive criticism;)

That shot if Chicago is excellent. Seen the city so many times fly in and out of O’Hare. This makes it seem completely new.

Trey, you have amazing talent – I’m so proud to show it off on my Moxie Mo Show podcast – our fans LOVE your backgrounds on my show!

Many thanks and here’s to a prosperous 2010!
Moxie Mo aka Jeff McCord

I strongly agree with several other comments in that these images look like they are from videogames. While I do not like the over-stylized effect, I can appreciate the time and effort required to produce these images. Notice I specifically call them images, not photographs, because that is far from what you’ve created. I think that these are too saturated and too “dreamy” and lose any essence of human emotion in them. The one picture that I do like is the scene with the monkey because it does not look saturated or obviously photoshopped. I think you should try and create pictures that do not look completely fake upon first impression, forcing the viewer to try and figure out what you did to get a beautiful shot. Good luck in the future, and please see this as constructive criticism.