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Regardless of your opinion on the subject matter, I can unreservedly recommend this piece as a sublime example of the photographer's art.
I disagree, the poor quality and bad HDR really detracted from the images for me, they were painful to look at.
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Totally honest question here: can you be very specific about what caused these photos to be painful for you to look at? I have no formal photographic training but I have always taken a lot of pictures, and I've been told that some of them are good. I do know what HDR is, gleaned from various hacker news posts over the years. What is painful about these photos, to you?
It's funny, now it's called HDR (for high dynamic range) but really you are compressing the "dynamic range" to make details visible that otherwise would be washed out or too dark. This has been a regular part of photography from the darkroom days, manipulating the exposure time, masking parts to selectively reduce exposure, "burning in" other parts. Especially with BW photography. The sort of other-worldly crispness,…
This also what separates it a bit from techniques like masking which don't change the underlying range available, but rather tweaking the exposure in an area. Dodging and burning are dark room techniques, which is a whole different kettle of fish.
As you note though, people used to do similar things with exposure bracketing in analog days - it's just a lot easier with digital.
Fundamentally you can get some pretty similar results with selective lighting. After all you are locally changing the effective represented photon density hitting your receptor, either way.
Trying to locate any of those, I settled on one with an unusual street sign - 'Coolbaugh St'. There are 2 in the US, both in Pennsylvania. Neither has that building along it! Strange
Regardless of your opinion on the subject matter, I can unreservedly recommend this piece as a sublime example of the photographer's art.
I disagree, the poor quality and bad HDR really detracted from the images for me, they were painful to look at.
Also road trip photography journeys a la Stephen Shore and Timothy O'Sullivan are so overdone. It's like the liberal arts student rite of passage these days.
Having grown up in a country where nationalism kind of harks back to nazism, it's always weird for me to see all the flags everywhere. It's just not something I can get used to, even after all these years of seeing US flags everywhere.
They don't feel the same as they did when I was a kid, and there are more of them, and they're used in different contexts.
Fantastic images. I wish each photo included the city and state where it was taken for context.
The garage photo: https://goo.gl/maps/kDAs2buEaaL2
The car sticking out of the earth:
https://goo.gl/maps/JuFdKETPtgw
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/international-car-forest-...
Two more appear to be in Red Oak, Iowa. I googled for "red oak printing" that is visible in one of the photos, which led to coolbaugh lane on the map, which is also visible in another photo.
Having grown up in a country where nationalism kind of harks back to nazism, it's always weird for me to see all the flags everywhere. It's just not something I can get used to, even after all these years of seeing US flags everywhere.