Originally Posted by marcop

I thought HDR had been laughed off the planet (except for real estate photography) a couple years ago as it went from a new technique to horribly overused in about six months. IMHO, it works well for real estate and building interiors, but portraits, nudes, landscapes, etc., look both shitty and cliched. Amateur photographers glommed onto HDR as (for some reason) it was thought of as being arty, in the same way that amateur photographers tend to think that any black and white image is art because it's black and white.