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I'm OK with it in most flavors, but I really don't like when it's super over the top...it's just not my aesthetic. When I use it, I try to generally maintain a fairly natural look to it. I hate the big halos that can come with too-processed HDR. There are occasions where I'll go for a more unnatural look, but for the most part I try to keep it fairly subtle. Often, I'll use HDR to simply get a cleaner version of an image that I can produce with a single shot, simply to clean the noise in the shadows.
Here's a simple example of an HDR shot I recently took that I don't think looks HDR at all (it's only a mediocre shot, but still
http://www.jordansteele.com/2016/columbus_distant_sunrise.jpg
Sometimes I go a bit heavier:
http://www.jordansteele.com/2016/rock_house_bw.jpg
Frankly, I often have a hard time remembering which of my shots used HDR, as the look I go after is pretty close to a standard shot.
I did two recent panorama HDRs, though, below. The first is a bit more obvious than the second, but I still don't feel it's really over the top.
http://www.jordansteele.com/2016/riverfront_fall_pano.jpg
http://www.jordansteele.com/2016/columbus_night_supermoon.jpg
In a lot of cases, though, with sensors as good as they are, I find myself not needing HDR as much as I did a few years ago. When I was trying to find samples, I thought to myself, Well, I'm sure the shots I did of the sun setting over the Pacific last year were done in HDR...and I went back and looked and they're all single files, but almost have an HDR-like feel to them due to the already wide dynamic range, such as this shot:
http://www.jordansteele.com/2015/pacific_sunset2.jpg
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