Remains of The Day

Remains of The Day, originally uploaded by mavenimagery® Bringin Artist 2Gether For Cancer.

Remains of The Day
Processed by: mavenimagery Lab, Universal Studio, Californa.

Hyper-Realistic HDR image PROCESSED with IRET (Iris Range Enhancement Technology)
IRET (Iris Range Enhancement Technology and MavenFilters are products of mavenimagery Labs Innovation.

Note: This image is being posted mostly to HDR groups. It's a survey conducted by mavenimagery in association with Photomatix Pro 4 Beta. The result of the survey and gathered data will be published in UK's and US's major Photography magazines. We believe HDRI Technology has become a trend rather than what initially was meant to be...it was meant to capture, at least, 14 EVs (Exposure Values) as opposed to the conventional high-end cameras' capability of capturing only a miserable 5-9EV's. Hello? The eye sees, on any given day, 24EV's (1.000.000.000:1 contrast ratio). All the HDR images at mavenimagery are not really HDR images. So are yours, my Flicker-HDR Groups-on-a-High Saturated-horse, sometimes with missing an ear or a tree yonder assailed by "Enemy Photons" that strike your sensor without you being aware...not that would matter if you were aware. You'd still be enslaved to your ignorance (not to be ashamed of) of tone mapping provided you by numerous HDR softwares who themselves are students of HDRI, learning, ripping you off along the way as they're trying to fund their experiments with your money. Think! Harry Potter and George Lucas' Star Trek were the only ones to be produced in HDRI Technology....Now! Do you see any resembles to the "tone mapping" by current HDR imagine soft wares? I know you don’t! If I only point out excessive obliterated pixels and candy-like saturated colors, I'd make my points. Now, there's nothing with trends or fashion. But they're here for limited time only...Just like break-dance. Fact: as of today, there is no market for HDR images...you can't view it, you can print. HDR technology is still in its infancy and may take 10-15 years to be supported by all formats, conventional prints and displays etc. Remember. We're still in transition from DVD to Blu-Ray. It’s been more than 7 seven years and it will take perhaps another 5 years or more to acquire Blu-Ray supported devices. Yes, the current Blu-Ray technology is not real HD either, but this not a concern of this subject, although relatively connected to each other via display devices.
Finally, the image you and I can display or print is not a 32-bit HDR image, but a 32-bit image converted (tone mapped) to 16-bit TIFF (MDR, Medium Dynamic Range)...Aha! (Houston We've got Problem. We can’t post you the Heavenly Colors of the moon in 16-bit TIFF’s either, BUT ONLY in 8-bit jpeg’s. More data loss. We apologize for the inconvenience), and then to 8-bit jpeg for display and prints...an image has to always end in a print. Tip: Save your HDR Images as hdr.Radiance until the day comes...and, mean while, enjoy trending and funking, but do not insult our intelligence. Get off your miserable Pony horses, smell the stimulus of coffee and label your work like "Unrealistic HDR. This is not how I saw this image, sorry. This is my interpretation of an artistic image" or "This is sur-realistic....” Whatever the Devil's Horn, it may be!" do not call it HDRI! I cannot stop you from kidding yourself...but the genuine quality and the naked truth will stop you! As it did stop all the trends and fashions...