Railroad-Crossing

Railroad-Crossing, originally uploaded by mavenimagery® Bringin Artist 2Gether For Cancer.

Important: View in large size for Non-Brain Hindrance Perception. Although,Colors and excess of high dynamic range have been skillfully removed with IRET as a favor to your brain, making it easier to see. This feat is not everyone's cup of tea (or coffe, if you drink coffe, that is). Your brain is very important organ and without it you're nothing but a cabbage (or lettuce, choose your veg. Wisher, my pet, loves lettuce and since he is on of the amartest animals in the world, he should know best). Although, on any given day, the rang of light is enormous, your brain (my brain, too) selfishly cares only about reflectance, and its range comparatively modest. Due to this selfisness you're not blind and homeless. Maybe not homeless, but blind nonetheless. Since your brain is trying to figure out surface reflectances (any surface reflects only 1% of the light it receives, and reflectances over 100% are forbidden by...you guessed it, your brain. Smart organ, eh?) based on what it sees, the huge range of illumination is often more hindrance to perception than a help. Therefore, an artist who skillfully removes the excess dynamic range in a painting or in an HDR image is actually doing your brain a favor. Said above and I'll say it again and again. Skill and practice required to accomplish this feat, for a painter or a HDR artist who is inexperienced and does not know how to create the illusion of range within the limited reflectances available will create something more like a cartoon than a rendition. Realistic painting techniques were perfected by the Dutch and Flemish masters during the Renaissance...Do you get the HDR picture?